A week later, Seattle, Islands of Adventure.

Gu Mojie and his right-hand man Gu Yong are in the process of unifying their voices before the acquisition. Feliro safely found a place to live, recuperate quietly, and escape the heat by the way.

Islands of Adventure is a small island located in Seattle's San Juan Strait waterway to the Pacific Ocean. There are no perennial settlers on the island, just a small resort to charter, plus a wooded area.

Oh, and strictly speaking, Adventure Island is supposed to be part of Canadian territory, and it's already north of the centerline of the shipping lanes in the San Juan Strait, which is administratively Vancouver. It's just that the seaplanes flying to this island are still the business scope of the Americans' municipal corporations, and the Canadian government will not bother with this trivial matter, let alone anyone check their passports when crossing the border.

The strict process of the U.S.-Canada border is nothing short of different from the U.S.-Mexico border to the south. There are no stowaways, no fanatics who cherish the "American dream" and would rather die than die on American soil.

It is surrounded by golden sand, no deep-water anchorages, and no large trestle bridges. Yachts over 100 tons cannot dock, and the island's distinguished guests basically rely on seaplanes to get in and out.

In Seattle, there are hundreds of inhabited islands, so seaplanes are a form of public transportation with a similar penetration rate as buses in the country. There's even an unlimited package price – $1,500 per month for unlimited transfers to a scheduled aircraft provided by the municipal corporation.

For those islanders who need to fly to and from work every day, buying this monthly pass is definitely a good deal.

The only thing that is unpleasant is that these people often have to wear slippers or sandals to work all year round – after jumping off the plane, they have to wade a few hundred metres in knee-high shallows to get home.

Every year, Seattle's hospitals admit many people who have been pinched by sea crab pincers on their way home.

……

Gu Yongjun's expression was rarely a little haggard, although his posture of smoking cigars and rum in big sunglasses was not slowed down at all, his spirit was obviously not good.

"Applejack, I really can't help it, I advise you to cut the mess quickly! I'll tell you the truth, even if there is a real economic crisis in the United States, and the hot money flows out, it is impossible for this Villefort software to reduce its price again.

They are simply self-produced and self-sold, and the game profits are developing new works, and they don't need to raise money in the capital market for a few years, and the Wall Street bigwigs have nothing to do with it--to say it's ugly, money is not short, it's their business.leenu/books/8/8569/

The daughter of the gate is busy farming! ”

Gu Mojie spent two or three days learning about the latest developments, but only waited for Gu Yong to complain.

It seems that General Gu Yong was also tossed by the lengthy negotiations of Villefort Software, which had been delayed for more than two months, and he couldn't help but burst into foul language.

"Those guys are really so hard to gnaw bones?" Gu Mojie held on to the last bit of luck and wanted to confirm it.

Gu Yongjiang took a deep breath, and Gu Mojie could see that the cigar was suddenly 3 centimeters shorter. As if he had carefully considered the words, Gu Yong said briefly but forcefully: "It's as hard to bite as you were back then!" ”

"Hiss......" Gu Mojie gasped.

He himself knows best what his attitude towards venture capital was at the beginning. Gu Yong's description is equivalent to saying that "those two founders don't plan to sell their companies at all".

Does this count as karma?

Gu Mojie was mentally prepared, and asked calmly: "What is the result of the final negotiation?" What are the current conditions? ”

Gu Yong will take out a copy of the paper, point to the terms on it, and say: "The company is now worth $700 million, but it must be at a 43% premium, and at a valuation of $1 billion, they will accept a partial privatization." In the so-called partial privatization, Cheng dù only buys the shares of other investors, but does not sell the shares of the two founders. ”

Gu Mojie did a little mental calculation and confirmed: "In other words, we paid 5.4 billion yuan, and in the end we only bought 80% of the equity of Villefort Company?" ”

His original plan was to use up to 6 billion to achieve 100% control of Villefort, but now not only the unit price has increased by 15% compared with his psychological price ceiling, but the key is not to buy out.

In other words, no matter how much money Gu Mojie makes with Welfort software in the future, 20% of the profit will always be made for the founders of the two companies.

Gu Yong spread his hands: "That's the situation." ”

Gu Mojie got up and paced two steps slightly: "It's not easy for you to talk about this." I know there will always be hard-nosed people. It is reasonable for people to raise the company to such a big size, accounting for 20% of the profits. ”

The benefits of the world can be taken up by one person. Since there are beautiful acquisitions such as Happy Network, School Network, and Multiplay Network, there will definitely be such a hard bone as Villefort Software at the same time.

In order to get on the hat's-app, the future K even admitted the purchase price of $19 billion, is it because Zuckerberg's people don't know how to lower the price? Apparently not.

Compared with the price, Gu Mojie is worried that he will not be able to completely control the operation of the company. So he finally added a question before making a decision.

"Brother Yong, do you know that if we own 80% of the shares of Villefort, can we completely control the company and make arbitrary business decisions?"

Gu Yong was taken aback: "Do you want to transfer high-quality assets to affiliated companies at a low price?" That's impossible! U.S. corporate law is much stricter than China's -- don't ask me about that, just ask for tips. If you're going to sell the 'Team Fortress' and 'Steam' platforms to the parent company, Hatsune Entertainment, at a cheap price, right? Don't even think about this kind of hands and feet—"

Gu Mojie smiled bitterly, "Am I so shameless?" I never thought about transferring quality assets. Okay, I ask to be specific: if I just want to adjust some of Villefort's non-shareholder personnel and recruit some people to Hatsune Entertainment, this can always be done, right? ”

General Gu Yong breathed a sigh of relief: "This is okay, but who is it that you have taken a fancy to, and it is worth making such a big move?" ”

"When we first started Dota, there was another team, codenamed 'Ice Frog', in Villefort, and now that we are doing Dota 2, it is good to introduce the past to form competition. In addition, Hatsune Entertainment wants to make its own fps game, and it is indispensable to Wilford's top fps game designers and programmer team.leenu/books/8/8568/

[Reborn] Adoptive Father! Adoptive husband?. ”

Gu Yong was confused by Gu Mojie: "Since you value talents, why do you still need the shell of Villefort?" I knew that you were going to dig people, so how could you use more than 5 billion. I'll throw 1 billion yuan and promise to dig you up all except for the shareholders of Villefort. ”

Gu Mojie: "Of course the shell is useful!" Not to mention that Villefort's current games are still profitable, but the games they make are all on the streets, and a steam platform alone is more than 5 billion in my eyes. ”

Gu Yong shrugged: "Okay, you are the boss, you have the final say." You've dug Steven though. Sheep knife, and then dig the ice frog team, there will definitely be internal dissatisfaction with each other, who will listen to whom when the time comes? ”

"It doesn't matter, the game base of Dota 2 has been developed, and the follow-up is just a matter of optimizing and releasing expansions and upgrading profit points. I've thought about it so much that I could have drawn two parallel teams to develop competitively. ”

"What do you mean?"

"For example, each team is working in parallel to develop new heroes, new items, new skins, and new maps. And then compare sales, compare usage, compare traffic. Develop bonuses for each team according to the results, so that there is no zài dumping. ”

Gu Yongjiang is not optimistic about this: "This thing is not so simple, and such competition can easily hurt the balance of the game - for example, if you sell more for the heroes you design, you will definitely set the hero's attributes to be stronger." In the long run, the balance of the competition is lost. ”

Gu Mojie: "I think these are all details, which can be discussed slowly in the future - we can completely include the balance indicator of 'win rate' in the KPI assessment, and before launching new heroes, we must exchange two groups internally for trial battles, if the designer still wins the game after the exchange, we can put the new heroes into the game, otherwise it should be weakened and weakened."

As for skins and maps, which don't affect balance in the first place, there is no need to set up competitive remedies. ”

General Gu Yong was silent after listening, he was not very familiar with the game after all. Gu Mojie saw that the other party did not react, so it was the final decision.

"Well, that's it. Later, we have to tighten up the spending a little bit, at the beginning of the financing of 19 billion, 6 billion is reserved for the cooperation of China Unicom and China Telecom, happy network, school intranet, more play, plus today's Villefort, a total of more than 8 billion has been acquired, and we only have less than 5 billion hot money left.

In the past two days, I always feel that the financial market in the United States has become more and more noisy, and the 'residential mortgage investment company' has defaulted on its debt three times, and I don't know when it will file for bankruptcy protection. Maybe the Americans will run out of subprime debt. The 5 billion hot money should be kept and used until the end of the year, and the high-quality assets in the cultural industry should be copied. ”

Hearing Gu Mojie's approval of the acquisition plan, Gu Yongjiang's nerves also relaxed, and his speech was not so suppressed.

"Rest assured, you have seen the trend, I will not see? In fact, Americans have seen a lot of it, but they don't have so much living money waiting for the time being. People with living money can make more or less money, depending on whether you evaluate high-quality assets accurately. ”

……

Two days later, Gu Mojie personally represented Hatsune Entertainment and met with the two founders of Villefort Software. Newell, Mike. Harrington, along with the other major shareholders of Villefort, entered into a package agreement for a limited privatization.

This acquisition case, which cost Gu Mojie 5.4 billion yuan, has finally been finalized.

When exchanging agreements, Gu Mojiepi congratulated the other party with a smile: "Congratulations, Gebu, the company has so much money, but you can continue to be your CEO." ”

"You insisted on buying our company."

"Yes, that's right, just think I owe you." Gu Mojie was so angry that he couldn't show it on his face at all.

One day, I will let you know that even if the valuation of 7 billion starts, my brother can still make money. (To be continued.) )