As soon as the sentence "You are just an ancient person in my eyes" came out, Gu Cheng knew that things were going to be worse. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Maybe he was too relaxed just now, and he didn't speak through his brain.

Sun Zhengyi's face was full of shock.

He has been at the helm of SoftBank for 20 years, and it has been a long time since anyone dared to talk to him like this. The last time he was so "talked and laughed" was 18 years ago when he went to the Toshiba consortium as an entrepreneur to invest.

"I'm sorry Mr. Sun, I'm not targeting you," Gu Cheng's brain spun rapidly, and he immediately wanted to remedy his lines, "I just want to say everyone here...... Oh no, I'm saying that everyone is an ancient in my eyes. ”

Gu Cheng originally wanted to appropriately expand the scope of the map cannon to "everyone here", but when this word came to his lips, he saw Cai Chongxin sitting there with an embarrassed face, with an expression of being overwhelmed and flooded, Gu Cheng could only grit his teeth and open the caliber of the map cannon a little bigger.

I pretended to be forced by myself, and I had to finish it with tears. It's four years later, Zuckerberg's forced to meet Sequoia Capital in his pajamas can't pass this.

"Yes, yes. I have invested in 20 years, and I have never seen such an arrogant person, which is really terrifying. ”

Sun Zhengyi's eyebrows on both sides couldn't stop twitching, and it took a long time to calm down the surging of qi and blood before he spewed out such a sentence, "What does Mr. Gu mean, is it determined that he doesn't plan to accept any venture capital? You come up with some dry goods, let me see the evidence that the equity of Legendary Entertainment is enough to bet 200 million!"

As soon as Sun Zhengyi finished speaking, without waiting for Gu Cheng to answer, he immediately added: "My ugly words will be said first." If you just take the current gross profit margin and cash flow statement, I don't recognize it. The uncertainty of the future of games is too great, in case one day the game technology is updated and the fashion trend changes. If you say it's angry, it's too angry. ”

Sun Zhengyi's sentence is very reasonable: games, and it's not a strong demand that must be done. No matter how popular a game is, if it only relies on "fun" to help users, even if it is very popular and the income is very high, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not decline rapidly after a year and a half.

Maybe the reason for the decline is simply that a competitor has introduced a much more fun game? Or maybe it's just a qualitative leap in game development technology and performance in the past two years?

Gu Cheng was ready to come up with the financial statements: judging from the financial statements, the current monthly sales volume of Legend always has more than one million point cards and thirty or forty million revenues. However, financial statements alone cannot prove the "sustainable life of the game".

Cai Chongxin also had a lot of criticism of Gu Cheng's arrogance at the beginning, and at this moment he took the opportunity to persuade earnestly: "Xiao Gu, Sun is always a senior boss in the investment industry, and there are few people in the world who can compare with that vision." You really thought it was too simple at first! Right now, the game 'Legend' might be worth 200 million. But you're not paying Mr. Sun back right now, are you?

What you want is to borrow money now and pay it back in at least two years. Who knows if Legend will be worth so much money two years later? When the time comes, you will spend all the 200 million yuan that Mr. Sun borrowed from you and use it elsewhere; and the operating profits of Legend Entertainment in the past two years have also been invested elsewhere by you. Two years later, when Mr. Sun came back and asked you to collect the debt, you still didn't come out and used an outdated game to pay off the debt, right?"

Gu Cheng thought about it and felt that Cai Chongxin's words were still reasonable, so he was kind and flowing: "It's true that I didn't make it clear about this." The collateral is not necessarily just the equity of Legend Entertainment, I can do some equity adjustment, and hand over the equity of Legend Entertainment, Dingdang, and Eslite Audio and Video to a general holding company.

I can use the total equity of the holding company as collateral for convertible bonds to Mr. Sun. At the same time, I also guarantee that all the funds obtained from this financing will ultimately be spent within the scope of the business under the name of the holding company. There will be absolutely no external related party transactions, evasion and transfer, and we can sign a specific appendix on the details of the use of funds in this regard. ”

Cai Chongxin listened to Gu Cheng's assurance, and turned his head to look at Sun Zhengyi.

Sun Zhengyi's expression was still a little disdainful and annoyed, and he snorted coldly: "These are all details, you can talk slowly." Today you're going to have to prove to me the question of 'Legends are still worth two years later'. If you can't convince me of a reason, let Xiao Cai help you find Sequoia or Goldman Sachs. ”

The bigwigs are temperamental, and they are still willing to sit down after being despised by them, so it must be that the investee has a very solid foundation.

(There are isolated evidence and counterexamples in everything, so don't be too considerate.) For example, Shen Nanpeng of Sequoia China has no temper, and when he encounters a very optimistic project, even if the entrepreneur asks him to leave, he will stalk: "Give me a reason why you don't accept my investment." ”）

Gu Cheng sighed, and said in his heart that fortunately, the master had been prepared. He made an internal phone call, and after a while, Pan Jieying walked into the conference room with a notebook full of videos.

Gu Cheng connected the laptop to the projector and said as he spoke:

"Mr. Sun, there are a lot of materials we collected when we were operating 'Legend'. You know, when we were Legends, we promoted the recharge system, so at present, there are more than 30,000 Internet café owners across the country who are helping us push games. In the process of pushing, they also shared a lot of materials that reflect the current popularity of the game to us. ”

Sun Zhengyi's eyes were cold, and he looked at the projection screen proudly, as if he didn't think that these things could prove anything.

Gu Cheng sat next to him and made a cameo as a commentator.

"This is what we did in July, and we just ran an event to count the online time and the best players in each district and reward them with equipment. There is a player in 1 district and 2 servers, whose ID is called Prince Dan, and he was the only one in the whole region and all servers to rush to level 35 at that time.

Since the open beta last year, he has been online 24 hours a day, 160 hours a week, and is not online only when the server is maintained. And hired someone to open a total of 3 numbers, two trumpet sparring partners, and help fight monsters faster. 3 accounts contribute 600 yuan to our company every month, and now we have spent nearly 5,000 yuan in the game.

Then, the company rewarded him with a new piece of equipment that will only appear in the upcoming new expansion, the Dragon Slayer. The following videos are the surveillance captured by Internet café owners across the country after the dragon slaying knife was issued. ”

Sun Zhengyi was disdainful of Gu Cheng's foreshadowing at the beginning, and he almost couldn't help yawning.

He is hundreds of thousands of investment bigwigs in the minute, and he still has time to listen to you explain how popular an online game is now?

However, in the next second, he saw a black-and-white surveillance video of an Internet café with audio. In the video, a player suddenly shouted: "Prince Dan! I saw Prince Dan, Dragon Slayer!"

Then a group of players gathered around and stared at the computer of the player who shouted. The player seemed to have clicked the "Observe Equipment" button, and then did nothing and followed the warrior player named Prince Dan, so that the onlookers behind could see what the Dragon Slayer Knife looked like.

A group of thugs commented on their heads and tastes, and they were still unsatisfied. Just half a minute later, several people pulled out their mobile phones and started calling.

"Brother X, there are people in our Internet café in 1 area and 2 suits, yes, Prince Dan is the one who serves it, I saw the dragon slayer knife on the screen with my own eyes. Stop talking nonsense, hurry up, take a taxi and see. ”

Ten minutes later, several groups of people poured into the Internet café, looking around the computer on three floors and three floors outside. Just because there are no players in the Internet café next door with one area and two servers, they can't witness the existence of the dragon slayer knife with their own eyes.

This video was learned of this deed by Gu Cheng's local push team when they visited the Internet café and asked the owner of the Internet café to copy it back, and it is said that the company also rewarded the local push with an additional commission. Since then, the local promoters have been more enthusiastic about gathering all the evidence about the legendary explosion.

The original intention of this incident was just that Liu Shuqin and her best friend Pan Jieying from the market research department discussed it privately, and felt that it could be used as material for soft marketing of games in the future, such as contributing to game magazines such as "Popular Software". Unexpectedly, now Gu Cheng first showed it to investors.

Sun Zhengyi was dumbfounded.

In Fusang, playing games is playing games, and it is a private matter for otaku to hide, and there has never been any social influence. Even the most fanatical geeks about gaming technology are nothing more than sharing some high-scoring records and occasionally taking a video of the game process.

This kind of thing can make all players on the same screen stop and watch, or even make people from an Internet café crammed behind each screen to watch, or even let an Internet café player on the next street take a taxi to watch. In Sun Zhengyi's eyes, it is completely unimaginable.

He has voted for Sony and Yahoo, but he has never seen such an example of fanaticism when he has traveled all over the country of Fuso.

But that's not all.

Gu Cheng continued to prove this to him from another dimension: "Mr. Sun, this video is an event organized by a player named 'Little Shrimp', who is the head of a guild called 'Former Alliance' in 'Legend'. In terms of leveling fanaticism, he was indeed inferior to 'Prince Dan', but in just half a year, he had established a gang of more than 2,000 people in that server. Whenever someone in the gang encounters an activity that is not in time, he will help the organization to help ......"

"Also, this account is owned by a real-world player named Shi Yuzhu. He is a southern entrepreneur, and his main achievement is the development of a super money-scamming nutritional product 'Brain BAI Gold'. But those who can cheat others out of money can't resist the temptation to pretend to be forced in the 'legend'.

So he spent 3,000 yuan to buy a high-end number, and also spent 20,000 yuan to buy a top-of-the-line 'God of War suit' and weapons, and hired two secretaries to help him train in shifts 24 hours a day. Oh, I forgot to mention that he is also one of the first individual users of the 'Alipay' software in China. The transaction of buying equipment for him is the payment completed by the seller who shouted in the game and was completed on Alipay......"

Sun Zhengyi felt that his brain was a little insufficient.

He vaguely noticed that after just 9 months of savage growth, the game Legend could no longer be measured simply by the dimension of the game.

Behind this is an intertwined society.