Chapter 850: Attack on the Pioneer Fund (Medium)
After successfully controlling eBay, the Pioneer Fund directly became a "hands-off shopkeeper" like its own big boss, and the follow-up development of eBay was handed over to Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers to "wipe their butts".
However, the most important thing to do now is to find a great president and CEO for eBay, which is the key to making eBay take off. In this regard, Su Chenyu had already arranged a backhand, and after controlling eBay, he had already found a real god for eBay in his mind.
This great god is none other than Meg Whitman, the "female boss" who led eBay to successfully fly into the sky in her previous life!
Yes, it's Meg Whitman, a well-known female professional manager!
With eBay's current scale, it's really difficult to get the god Meg Whitman. Quite simply, because eBay really isn't even a fart now, who knows who he is? But this is not the case with Meg Whitman, a great god who graduated from Harvard University with an MBA and held senior positions at Procter & Gamble, Disney, and Hasbro.
Therefore, there is no shortage of work for Meg Whitman, and even the opportunity is great, and it is not the turn of a small company like eBay, which has been established for less than half a year, to hire people. However, this is different now, because eBay is backed by super financial giants like Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers, and it is backed by a stronger consortium.
So when eBay announced, Meg Whitman, president and CEO of the world's largest flower company, was officially appointed president and CEO of the company!
Rumble......
Many companies in the entire Internet industry have exploded, and even the American business community is a little confused, but there is no way, this news is really too shocking! You know, Meg Whitman is the absolute best among professional managers, and what the hell is eBay? Can anyone tell me?
However, it just happened, and everyone was shocked that there was another bird to use?
Besides, don't look at who made it? You know, this time it's the person who Tianchen Fund personally poached, can it still be successful? What's more, Meg Whitman herself is also a member of the pan-SS consortium, so Tianchen Fund is naturally handy.
Don't doubt that Meg Whitman is a member of the SS consortium department, you must know that in order to build his own huge SS consortium over the years, Su Chenyu is not only in a huge volume, but also cultivating his own talents!
After all, the most important thing in the 21st century is ?—— talent!
Su Chenyu still sees this very thoroughly, so he has recruited a large number of future super professional managers in the American business community.
While Meg Whitman became president and CEO of eBay, the Pioneer Fund continued his offensive path......
Not long after eating into eBay, the Pioneer Fund announced another seemingly "inconspicuous" acquisition, announcing an agreement with Jack Smith and Shabir Bhatia to buy Hotmail for $30 million!
Yes, it's the Hotmail mailbox, you read that right, it's the Hotmail mailbox that was hung on the Microsoft operating system in the future!
But, I'm sorry, the hotmail mailbox is now owned by the Pioneer Fund, and as for Microsoft, hehe, stay where it is cool! Of course, if Microsoft is willing to give up some shares, or offer a very tempting price, then I don't mind the Pioneer Fund to part with love - after all, we are all brothers - mutual help is right!
Don't doubt that Su Chenyu is so shameless, specializing in cutting off Hu, and even more specifically cutting off Microsoft's Hu -- you are also a major shareholder of Microsoft! You must know that the existence of hotmail mailboxes on e-mail will greatly enrich Microsoft's product line.
Don't look at the hotmail mailbox is very important to Microsoft, but, if you don't blow it up, the hotmail mailbox is really dispensable for the pioneer fund, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is useless at all!
So, hotmail is really just a business, yes, it's really just a business.
However, the next crazy attack is not just a business, but a real long-term investment, and even, so to speak, true love!
Blizzard, this is really a famous name, I believe everyone who has played the game should know this name. Warcraft, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, etc., which is not the existence of the hegemon in the game world, especially, just ask you how many people's youth Warcraft is - that is the real youth!
In 1991, UCLA graduates Mike Mowmi, Alan Adhan, and Frank Pierce co-founded Silicon & Neural Bonds – the beginning of Blizzard!
The just-established "Blizzard" is simply a poor man, and it only has $40,000 to do research and development, so I ask you that $40,000 is enough to do a yarn! However, just this $40,000 has made the absolute hegemon in the game industry in the future - Blizzard!
Now, Blizzard is in a difficult low ebb, just two years ago, they were just acquired by the famous publishing company Davidson &Associates! So, while Blizzard is still undervalued, if the Pioneer Fund does not hurry up and insert a foot in it, it is really sorry for the word "Pioneer" in its name.
Without any superfluous nonsense, the Pioneer Fund directly offered a sky-high price of $300 million to directly package Davidson & Associates Publishing Company, thus completing the control of Blizzard. After that, the Pioneer Fund once again smashed the sky-high price, and at a sky-high price of nearly 100 million US dollars, it forcibly ate all the remaining shares of Blizzard - so far, it officially completed the wholly-owned control of Blizzard.
However, although the Pioneer Fund has become the wholly-owned controlling shareholder of "Silicon and Nerve Bond", they really have no idea of interfering in the daily operation and management of the company. Besides, it's better for this kind of highly professional company to be done by professionals, such as the Pioneer Fund, which is engaged in finance, and they know a game of yarn - it's good to be able to play a game.
Therefore, after the wholly-owned acquisition of "Silicon and Neural Bonds", the Pioneer Fund directly made a solid decision with the three founders of the company - the company's operation and management rights are fully delegated to you, and you will make the best game in the world according to your ideas, and you don't need to consider the rest at all.
, as soon as they heard the conditions offered by the Pioneer Fund, the three founders of "Silicon and Nerve Bonds" were really grateful, and they were afraid that after this kind of financial fund company holding company, they would indiscriminately interfere with the independent development rights of the game. So, for a while, people have been panicking, but now, the "new master" has given a message - do whatever you want.
As for whether these people will be lazy, or cheat in it, hehe, really won't—why? Quite simply, because although Mike Mohuaimi, Alan Adhan, and Frank Pierce have sold their shares, they hold a large number of dividend shares in Silicon and Nerve Bonds. So, if they want to make money, then work hard and make the company more money – it's a real win-lose.
Do you want to worry that these people will suddenly take the team out to work alone? Hehe, if they don't blow it up, they really don't dare! If they dare to go out and work alone, if it weren't for Su Chenyu's bragging, their company would have to go out of business the next day -- this is the power of capital.
Why are the "two carriages" in China so awesome now, because Jack and Pony hold the huge capital of Ali and Tencent. Therefore, any technology startup, once it becomes big, is nothing more than two ways - turn left to Ali and right to turn to Penguin - the big fist of capital will let you know the enthusiasm of this circle.
Many people are a little confused about the sudden acquisition of a game company by the Pioneer Fund, you know, the game industry is not very prosperous now. Even with the Internet, it's a computer game company, it doesn't seem very easy to do, not to mention, it still spent nearly $400 million to acquire this thing?—— isn't it stupid? Could it be that the Pioneer Fund has money to burn bags?
Hehe, I have to say, this is the benefit of standing on the shoulders of the giants of the times, who would have known that the future "Silicon and Nerve Bonds" would develop into the world's computer game giants after becoming "Blizzard".
However, Su Chenyu knows, who made this product stand on the shoulders of the giants of the times and look down on the Bug of the entire tide of the times? Therefore, the "Pioneer Fund" should not be called a "pioneer", but should be called a "leak picker", and it can also be called a "beard cutter"!
But, no matter what, now that the famous Blizzard has become Su Chenyu's private property in the future, I ask you if you are angry?
Moreover, Blizzard Games is not just a game company in Su Chenyu's planning, he will become an important part of the huge entertainment empire under the SS consortium.
No one knew that the second thing that happened just after the Pioneer Fund's wholly-owned acquisition of Silicon & Nerve Bond was the introduction of MGM Group as its strategic partner. Yes, it's MGM Group, isn't it a perfect combination of games and movies?
Before the introduction of MGM, the first thing Pioneer Fund did after its wholly-owned acquisition of Silicon & Nerve Bonds was to change its name. Yes, it is to change the name, this "silicon and nerve bond" is too twisted, Su Chenyu thinks that the name "Blizzard" is better!
Therefore, the Pioneer Fund directly changed the name of "Silicon and Neural Bonds" to "Blizzard......