Chapter 67 Press Conference
On March 25, 2014, this day is destined to be an extraordinary day in China's Internet industry, two pieces of news appeared on the Internet almost at the same time, one is that the mythical company spent a huge amount of money to acquire the Xishanju studio under Kingsoft, and the other is that the chairman of the mythical company, Li Haoyu, acquired all the shares of the Huanju era in the hands of Lei Jun at a sky-high price, and the price is said to be almost 5 billion yuan.
As soon as these two pieces of news were released, they spread on the Internet at a very fast speed, and netizens were talking about it, these are the two heavyweight bombs thrown out by the mythical company a few days ago after the large-scale number theft incident sued the Donghai Yunfei Game Company after winning the lawsuit, and the Huaxia Internet is discussing this matter as long as it has a little leisure.
The three companies involved were surprisingly silent in the face of doubts on the Internet, and did not express any intention to refute the rumors on the Internet.
Mythical Network Company and Li Haoyu are completely popular now, and they are the kind that is red and purple, if Mythical Company has been listed, then the market value will definitely skyrocket one or two times overnight. However, Jinshan is more sad, after the news was released, Jinshan's share price immediately fell by 7%, and the market value shrank by nearly one billion, but Lei Jun believes that Jinshan's stock price will rise back in the future, and it is higher than the current stock price.
Two days after these two pieces of news appeared, that is, on the day of March 27, Kingsoft suddenly sent the news to the major media that the next day held a press conference, and the major media immediately sent the most effective reporters to the East China Sea for interviews as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
At eight o'clock in the morning of March 28, a large number of reporters from major media rushed to the headquarters building in Jinshan to attend the press conference. They looked excited, this time Kingsoft will definitely break a big news, and their fame will also increase greatly with this revelation, and this month's bonus will also fall.
There were three or four hundred reporters from nearly 100 news media, all of whom gathered in the exhibition hall of the Kingsoft headquarters building, nervously waiting for the start of the press conference. They are all peers, many of whom are old acquaintances, and at this time they get together to chat with each other, and by the way, ask each other if they have any inside information or something.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Kingsoft's press conference was held as scheduled, and the group sat on the rostrum of the exhibition hall in turn.
A beautiful master of ceremonies walked up to the rostrum, bowed slightly, and then said: "Thank you for coming to the press conference held by Kingsoft and Mythical Network Company in your busy schedule, and now I will introduce you to the guests who participated in the press conference." ”
The master of ceremonies introduced the people sitting on the rostrum separately, including Lei Jun, chairman of Kingsoft Software, Guo Weiwei, vice president of Xishanju, and Li Haoyu, chairman of Mythical Company.
"Friends from the media, the main reason for holding this press conference is to announce one thing, Mythical Company will acquire 80% of the shares of Xishanju Studio, a subsidiary of Kingsoft for 820 million yuan. In addition to the swordsman love network version three, the other game copyrights of Xishanju are still in the hands of Kingsoft software, and Xishanju will officially become a game studio under the mythical network company. Lei Jun took the microphone and said the theme of today's press conference.
Lei Jun's words made the reporters under the rostrum whisper, although they had already guessed the answer, but the chairman of Kingsoft said it himself, which means that this matter is already ironclad, maybe both parties have signed a contract. When these reporters heard this, they couldn't wait to ask the questions in their hearts, but before the time came to ask questions, they could only hold back no matter how many questions they had.
After a while, Lei Jun continued: "At the same time, Kingsoft will use 5% of the shares in exchange for 5% of the shares of Shinhwa Network Company to complete the cross-shareholding of the two parties. ”
As soon as this sentence came out, the reporters in the audience immediately boiled, and the scale of these two companies is too different, but what is unexpected is that these two companies can cross-hold shares with the same shares.
What is the reason for this, so that Kingsoft Software, whose assets exceed twenty or thirty times that of Mythical Network, can make such a decision?
As long as the truth of this is dug out, it is definitely big news!
The reporters immediately began to prepare to ask questions with long guns and short guns, and for a while the magnesium lights of the cameras flickered non-stop, and people's eyes were sour.
Li Haoyu sat behind the podium, this is the second time he has participated in this kind of press conference, the first time at Yanjing's Zhile software, and this is the second time. Today's Li Haoyu is no longer the fledgling hairy young man last year, he has no other feelings in front of the hundreds of reporters in the audience except for a little nervousness in his heart, and he has always had a warm smile.
Li Haoyu is a guest here, so the right to ask a question from a reporter for the first time was given to him, and he also swept around the audience, and saw a young woman reporter who was quite beautiful, so he ordered her to ask her questions.
The young woman reporter stood up and bowed slightly, and then asked: "Chairman Li Haoyu, I am a reporter from Popular Software, may I ask what impact will the acquisition of Xishanju have on your mythical company, and what arrangements do you have for the original Xishanju?" Xie Lu Xie. ”
Li Haoyu leaned the microphone closer and said with a smile: "Xishanju is one of the most well-known and powerful game studios in China, and the acquisition of Xishanju will have a qualitative change in the mythical company, especially the talents in the management of games will greatly supplement the mythical company." As for the original staff of Xishanju, I have discussed it with Mr. Guo Weiwei, the vice president of Xishanju. At present, everything remains the same in Xishanju, except for the people who operate the Swordsman Romance Online Version III, the other operational staff will be responsible for the operation of the game of Mythical Company. Mr. Guo Weiwei will resign from his position as Vice President of Xishanju to serve as Deputy General Manager and Head of Game Operations Department of Shinhwa Network. ”
Reporters from the audience wrote down Li Haoyu's words or began to record them, which would become the front page headlines of the next day's newspaper news or game media.
Next is Lei Jun's roll call, he pointed out a male reporter in the third row, he stood up and said politely: "Mr. Lei, I am a reporter from Donghai Daily, we want to know what caused Kingsoft to sell its most well-known game studio?" Did the mythical company and Jinshan agree on the above place? ”
Lei Jun thought for a while and said gracefully: "There are two main reasons why Kingsoft will sell Xishanju, first, Kingsoft will put its main energy into other aspects in the past two years, and it may not be able to take care of the game." Second, Chairman Li's sincerity touched me and the shareholders of the board of directors of Kingsoft, and after repeated discussions, we finally decided to hand over Xishanju to Mythical Network Company, hoping that Xishanju could be rejuvenated in Mythical Network Company. ”
The next reporter asked Guo Weiwei, "Guo Daxia, I am a reporter from 178 Game Network, may I ask if there is only one game in operation after Xishanju is acquired, will there be any problems with this game because of the acquisition of Xishanju?" ”
Guo Weiwei shook his head and said: "No, the Swordsman Romance Online Version III will have a smooth transition with Xishanju, and players don't have to worry about any losses, it is estimated that it may cause a suspension for most of the day when moving out of the server, and other impacts should not exist." ”
At this time, a named reporter began to ask: "Hello Chairman Li Haoyu, I am a reporter from the new Lang Games, may I ask if there are rumors that you personally bought all the shares of the Huanju Times in the hands of Chairman Lei Jun at a sky-high price, is this true?" If it is true, then how much money was spent to buy the shares in the hands of Chairman Lei Jun? Why do you like the era of reunion so much? ”
This reporter asked several questions in a row, and these questions were also what other reporters wanted to know, so they all pricked up their ears and prepared to know Li Haoyu's answer very clearly.
Li Haoyu frowned, and then said with a smile: "Mr. reporter, this is a press conference jointly held by Mythical Network Company and Kingsoft Software, please don't ask irrelevant questions, okay?" Of course, if you really want to know the truth, then wait for me and the press conference of the Gathering Times to ask me this question. ”
The reporter's eyes lit up, although Li Haoyu did not answer this question openly, but he heard Li Haoyu's faint hint, that is, the things between him and the Huanju era are true, and a press conference will be held in the near future.
The people who can be reporters and send out for interviews are not stupid, and they all heard Li Haoyu's digression, and they all took out pens to record them.
More than two hours later, the press conference was successfully completed, and the reporters of the major media did not even bother to eat lunch and left one by one.