Chapter 494: Strong (I)

As to describe Fortu's current mood, it is a little crying and laughing, Blizzard's value is not high, about $1 billion to $1.2 billion (of course, it just refers to Blizzard Entertainment, not Activision Blizzard after the merger, these are two concepts). But Blizzard's profitability, this basically does not need to be described. When Blizzard first signed the agency in China, the price paid by Jiucheng was about 55 million US dollars, although this price does not seem high, and it also brought enough profits to Jiucheng, but you must know that Jiucheng is only an operating company, and Blizzard still has a sales share.

After that, NetEase paid an even more terrifying price to win the agency of the World of Warcraft, plus Blizzard's other games, Blizzard has made more than hundreds of millions of dollars in profits for Vivendi Group every year over the years! And more importantly, as a game development company, as long as you have good developers and good hardware conditions, you don't need to pay much operating costs.

How could Vivendi Group sell such an excellent company? Unless the Starfall Group can offer a considerable price, otherwise, it is impossible for the Vivendi Group to sell Blizzard, but the Starfall Group has money, and the money is not blowing in the wind, right? How much can you smash?

No matter what Fortu thought, he would never have thought that Yang Yiwei put forward this idea, in fact, it really didn't go through long-term consideration, but after talking to Bill Gates, he met Fortu again, and after knowing that Fortu was the CEO of Vivendi Group, Yang Yiwei thought of Blizzard, and when he thought of Blizzard, Yang Yiwei just mentioned it in passing.

If Fortu knew that Yang Yiwei was not a serious consideration at all, he was just a smooth mouthful, and I don't know if Lu Dao would spit out a mouthful of blood directly. Of course, if the Vivendi Group really wants to sell. Yang Yiwei naturally doesn't mind buying it, money is now a number for Yang Yiwei, although his current strength may not be able to affect some countries, but at the business level, Yang Yiwei feels that money is no longer his purpose.

Anyway, now he can't spend all his money, and with Xiaoxi's foundation, it seems unlikely that he wants to lose money. "I'm sorry, Mr. Yang, you should also know that Blizzard Games is such an excellent and profitable company. Although its market value is not much in the Vivendi Group, no company will choose to sell such a profitable company. Fortu smiled slightly, then said apologetically.

Yang Yiwei smiled slightly, raised the red wine glass in his hand and touched Fortu before he said softly: "Of course." Indeed, no such profitable business would choose to sell. But Mr. Fortu. I don't think Blizzard is a good choice under the leadership of the Vivendi Group, although Blizzard is operating independently, but IMHO, the Vivendi Group can bring too little help to Blizzard, for you, in fact, Blizzard is nothing more than a money-making machine. But for me, it's so much more than that. So, if Blizzard remains in the hands of the Vivendi group, it will be nothing more than destroying it. ”

Although the offer to acquire Blizzard was just a casual mention by Yang Yiwei. But at this time, Yang Yiwei really wants to receive it to his subordinates, as long as it is a person born between 80 and 90 years, I think if there is that ability, I believe that Yang Yiwei's thoughts can be understood, how to say it, for this generation of people, computer games, online games can be said to have an irreplaceable position in the life of this generation.

Anyone born in this era who hasn't played an online game? Anyone who hasn't played a PC game? No! What's more, people who study computer computing, these people are actually paranoid about games, and after work, they may be forced to play games every day like when they were in college, but there will still be some games in the computer.

And now Yang Yiwei has this ability,When I wanted to play the game,Yang Yiwei doesn't know how many times he has been pit by the domestic game company,08 years later,It's rare to see excellent online games in China,A large number of them are shoddy,Fast food money games that are quickly manufactured,It's difficult to return to the state of the game between 2000 and 08。 Now the game system is how to make money, and at that time, at least a group of people were still trying to study the game's balance system, as well as playability.

"Mr. Yang, what do you mean?" Fortu's face was a little ugly, what did Yang Yiwei mean by this? What does it mean that Blizzard is ruined if it stays in the name of Vivendi Group? What is the limited amount that Vivendi Group can bring to Blizzard? Vivendi Group is a very large group, although Fortu is only a CEO, but he is also very important in Europe, when have you ever seen Yang Yiwei like this...... How can I say it, the person who just met him nakedly in the face? And to do this at a drinking party in such an upper-class social circle, surrounded by celebrities, and even people with a much higher status than his Fortu?

Fortu itself is indeed not qualified to enter this circle, do you see how many professional managers like Fortu are in the venue? Even the lowest worth is a tycoon! The so-called tycoons here are those whose invisible assets may be at least $120 billion, or shareholders of some big conglomerates, etc., many of which will not be shown on the Forbes list of the richest people in the world.

So Fortu's appearance here is actually because of the help of others to come in, come here, he also knows that the status of the people here is higher than him, on the surface, maybe everyone will not show it, but in the bones, Fortu himself feels inferior to others, and his heart is generally uncomfortable, and the tone of Yang Yiwei's current speech makes Fortu feel as if he has been insulted, and his voice is subconsciously a little high.

This small living room is not big, although it has an area of about two or three hundred square meters, but compared with the hall outside, it is a small thing, and those who can appear here are undoubtedly celebrities, Fortu's voice immediately attracted the attention of many people.

Yang Yiwei ignored the eyes of the people around him, just nodded with a slight smile and said: "I don't mean anything, that's what I mean, Starfall Group can provide to Blizzard far more than Vivendi Group can provide to Blizzard, although Vivendi Group is now a global media giant and game publishing giant." ”

Yang Yiwei's words were not loud. But because the people who were attracted by Fortu's voice before subconsciously lowered their talking voices, or simply stopped talking, the room was much quieter, so Yang Yiwei's words were heard by many people. After hearing this, these people looked at Yang Yiwei a little speechlessly, no wonder Fortu's face was not good-looking, and you still said it so justifiably, you are beating the lifeblood of the Vivendi Group!

Activision Blizzard, that is, the American Activision, once the world's second largest game developer and game publisher, and all players in the mouth of Blizzard, is also known as Blizzard Entertainment. And what Yang Yiwei wants to buy is what players think is Blizzard (Blizzard Entertainment), as for Activision in the United States, although its market value is as high as more than 17 billion US dollars, it is mainly the value of distribution channels and so on, Yang Yiwei is not interested in that!

After the merger, Activision Blizzard and Blizzard Entertainment actually run separately. Including Activision Blizzard after the merger, it has never appeared as Blizzard at international exhibitions such as E3, in addition. BlizzCon has also remained unchanged since Activision Blizzard's merger. is still the world of Blizzard Entertainment, and it has nothing to do with Activision, and the top management of Blizzard Entertainment and Activision Blizzard often openly provoke and accuse each other in front of the media.

And the entire Activision Blizzard has a lot of games, including the world-famous Call of Duty series is also Activision Blizzard, and this entire Activision Blizzard is of course the lifeblood of the Vivendi Group. Almost all of Vivendi's main earnings come from Activision Blizzard. Yang Yiwei wants to buy this now, can people look good on Fortu? It seemed to the people around them that it was like this, but they didn't expect it. What Yang Yiwei bought was not the entire Activision Blizzard at all, so Vivendi couldn't sell it, Yang Yiwei just wanted to buy Blizzard Entertainment.

"Could it be Mr. Yang, do you think Vivendi Group will sell Blizzard?" Fortu was actually a little misunderstood, thinking that Yang Yiwei wanted to buy the entire Activision Blizzard. So after hearing Yang Yiwei's words, Fortu was angry and quickly asked.

"I have money." Yang Yiwei honestly spit out three words, and directly signed the renewal contract in the country just now, and increased the purchase of alloys, and directly paid half of the deposit, taking this as a reward for Yang Yiwei to "bring back" a complete Virginia-class attack nuclear submarine! For the whole country, the value of such a nuclear submarine is even hundreds of billions of dollars! So this money is nothing, not to mention that this money is still a very normal business order, and it costs this money to any company that it is handed over, but this order is just handed over to the Starfall Group.

So now, Yang Yiwei has sold the shares of Xingnuo Communication Company, so that Xingluo Group's shareholding in Xingnuo Communication Company has dropped to 54%, although a lot of money has been invested in Madagascar, but there is also cooperation with Brilliant Mining, although the income is not much, but those are pure income, plus the income of Xingnuo Communication Company, and this huge amount of money to get rich in the country, Yang Yiwei now has about 100 billion US dollars in cash at his disposal!

It's cash! To put it mildly, at least three-quarters of the banks in the world do not have this amount of cash. Yang Yiwei's words were indeed very honest, but everyone around them was suffocated, and at this time, everyone suddenly discovered, yes! I have money! These are three very ordinary words, put them in this hall, and when you take them out, everyone will laugh.

But there was no laugh at this time, yes, these three words sound like pretending, especially in front of the fact that 50% of the people in this hall are major conglomerates, major tycoons, and people on the Forbes list of the richest people in the world, who has no money? But the confidence of Yang Yiwei's words is really something that others dare not say, the reason? It's very simple, Yang Yiwei only has 25% of the shares of Xingshen Group! But everyone knows that the other two women who hold 30% of the shares are Yang Yiwei's women, that is, Yang Yiwei still controls 85% of the group's shares.

In other words, the money of the Star Fall Group is Yang Yiwei's money, everyone has money, and even the people present are in a consortium that even has trillions or even trillions of dollars in assets, but so what? Those assets belong to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of shareholders, and if they are placed on a single person, who can squander hundreds of billions of dollars? Even tens of billions of dollars in cash can be taken out.

Not even the old Rockefeller! Because the entire Rockefeller family is not his alone! It's the whole family! These assets are not up to him, but what about Yang Yiwei? All the money is his, he wants to play how he wants, even if people say, I will exchange all the money for RMB tomorrow, directly how much money each Chinese pays, no one can stop him! That's the advantage of others!

Moreover, it is not difficult to know how much cash flow the Starfall Group has now, the orders of the Chinese government are not confidential, but public, which is also a means of covering up the ears and ears of the people in China, whether it is China or the Starfall Group is not a small goal, it is too difficult to cover up, it is better to release these superficial things generously and hide the real secrets.

Therefore, everyone knows how much cash the Starfall Group has in its hands now, 100 billion US dollars! This is a terrifying number, for these bankers and financial investors, the financial leverage of 1:100 on Wall Street is not a secret and a problem, everyone will play, the so-called financial leverage is in the financial field, spending 100 million US dollars can be leveraged and reach 10 billion US dollars can be done.

What is 100 times that $100 billion? What's more, there is also a bank with the strongest profitability and the highest market value in the world behind the Star Fall Group! There are so many advanced capitals, how much money can this bank provide to the Star Fall Group? Bill Gates has been the richest man in the world for 13 consecutive years, and he is worth tens of billions of dollars, but that is net worth, that is the value of Microsoft stock, not that he has so much cash in his hands.

So no one laughed at Yang Yiwei's words, but everyone had a feeling of suffocation, looking at Yang Yiwei's face became extremely strange and eager, for these bankers, Yang Yiwei was like a huge cake. And the Vivendi Group that was targeted by Yang Yiwei is naturally not so comfortable, yes, Activision Blizzard is indeed the confinement of Vivendi Group, but if Yang Yiwei does this, he will rely on the $100 billion in cash, let alone Activision Blizzard, if he slowly acquires it in the stock market, it is not a problem to get the largest shareholder of Vivendi Group.

Don't forget, the current market value of Vivendi Group is still a lot away from $100 billion due to the financial crisis. (To be continued.) )

PS: If it doesn't rain tomorrow, the stone will take a car back to his hometown in the morning, and the update will not be delayed, and there is also an Internet over there, but the time will definitely not be too fixed. It could be morning, afternoon, or evening. There is one more update today. ~Ask for a monthly pass~~