Early on the morning of the third day, Luo Sheng received news from John Paulson, and that another income from the Paulson hedge fund had been remitted to his account, totaling $2.15 billion in net earnings.

Then in the afternoon, Michael Barry's heir fund also remitted a second proceeding, totaling $1.9 billion in net income.

This money came so quickly and easily, and it made Luo Sheng feel no different from the wind.

What do you want to say...... Of course, it's a cool stroke.

A company as large as Bluestar Technology Group now has a revenue of more than $10 billion in the middle of last year, and its cash reserves are only more than $10 billion so far, and the net income of more than $10 billion in minutes is compared with the North American housing market.

To put it simply, Luo Sheng's personal wealth is now enough to be compared with the entire Bluestar Technology Group, and even his worth has surpassed Bill Gates.

Because most of Gates' worth is real estate, and Luo Sheng can now come up with more than $10 billion at any time, which is his personal disposable asset, not the company's assets.

In the following days, the two hedge funds settled and remitted all the profits to the investors' accounts one after another, and Luo Sheng was excited for a while at the beginning and did not keep an eye on it.

Anyway, you can't run, someone will help you take care of the offshore fund, and you can look at the total amount when all the income arrives.

……

Mid to late August.

Luo Sheng ended his usual routine work, the company's daily operation and management, Bluestar Technology Group is in charge of Zhang Bowen, and the Cote d'Azur is in charge of Yao Jianhong, both of whom are actual executors of practical things.

As for Luo Sheng, about half of his daily work time is spent on technology development, the other 20% is spent approving materials and proposals, and the remaining 30% is spent on meetings.

On average, there are five or six meetings per day, formal or informal, each week.

During the [Azure] program, Luo Sheng worked hard every day in those years, and he was as young as a hard worker, working no less than 100 hours a week, which is equivalent to working more than 14 hours a day.

It was a really tense time, and I had to rush for the time of the product launch.

After entering 2007, Luo Sheng did not fight as hard as before, for the first time there were weekends, used to work every day, and now under normal circumstances, weekends are rest time, holidays and holidays are also off, and they will never work when they should rest.

For the first time, the line between work and personal life is clearly drawn.

Even so, Luo Sheng still maintains a 70-hour working week, which means that he still has to work 14 hours a day from Monday to Friday.

Managing such a large business empire, there really isn't much time to spare.

In the second half of 2007, Luo Sheng's work focus was basically on two new projects: "Online Cloud Translation" and "Virtual Idol".

The former is not an overnight plan, but after the launch, the business of Bluestar Technology Group will immediately usher in a new leap, as for the latter, more for the next one or two decades to make a layout, and this year is mainly to successfully launch a movie-level advertising campaign, first set up the setting of Hatsune Miku, a virtual idol.

But if you want to become a real idol, you also need a huge behind-the-scenes team to carefully cultivate.

Time passed day by day, Luo Sheng's time in the technology development team became less and less, and he gradually got out of it, and the follow-up development was handed over to He Chao's team to take over.

As for Luo Sheng, who came out, he naturally won't be idle, and he is not a master who can be idle.

In late August, Luo Sheng's eyes shifted to the field of gaming, to be precise, the new field of e-sports.

The esports industry is undoubtedly a completely new field at the moment, and the global market for the entire esports field is currently only a few hundred million dollars.

But in the future, this is a huge market that can reach tens of billions of dollars, not only that, but the e-sports field also has a strong linkage with the business of Bluestar Technology and the Cote d'Azur, which is regarded as an important part of the moat by Luo Sheng.

South Koreans started the e-sports industry, and they also relied on e-sports to get out of the financial turmoil of '97, in a sense, Koreans actually relied on a video game to get out of the economic quagmire, this is not an exaggeration, but a fact that has happened.

South Koreans largely relied on StarCraft to get out of the financial crisis, and the game's popularity, in addition to its own excellence, was partly due to the current situation.

It was in the midst of the Asian financial crisis, and StarCraft was launched and quickly became a hit in South Korea, where the game was promoted by the state and a new industry was created - e-sports.

To this end, Koreans established the World Esports Championship - WCG.

The most popular esports game right now is undoubtedly StarCraft, whose professional league began in 1999 and was the beginning of the esports industry.

Today, the e-sports industry has entered its ninth year since its birth, and the current "StarCraft" e-sports game is known as South Korea's "three national skills" along with football and archery.

This also makes South Korea's e-sports industry at the forefront of the world, with a mature coaching system, training system, selection system, and event system that are very perfect, plus the sponsorship of Samsung Group, telecom duo SK Telecom, and KTF.

It can be said that the development status of the esports industry in South Korea is in full swing.

According to the Wall Street Journal, excellent professional players can get an annual salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars, measured by South Korea's economic standards, the income of professional players is already very considerable, and the popularity of the players is no less than that of the first-line stars in the Korean entertainment industry, and there was a StarCraft finals the year before last that attracted 120,000 viewers to watch the scene.

It can be seen that the esports industry is booming in South Korea.

……

In the technical department of Bluestar Technology Company, at this moment, Luo Sheng, Xu Yong and others were eating free snacks and chatting in a lounge, so comfortable.

"Hey, when does this year's WCG start? Or is it already over? Luo Sheng suddenly asked.

Xu Yong and the others were stunned for a moment when they heard this, and this question jumped too much.

“WCG？ Are you talking about the WCG of the World Esports Series? Xu Yong asked uncertainly.

"Of course, this is it." Luo Sheng nodded affirmatively.

Hearing this, Xu Yong sang on the laptop next to him and said, "Not yet, this is the seventh, and it will start in October, and there will be more than a month or so." ”

After finishing speaking, Xu Yong pushed the notebook aside, looked back at Luo Shenghu and said suspiciously, "Why are you asking this?" ”

Luo Sheng seemed to be talking to himself: "You say, I started another one by myself?" Or can you just buy WCG? ”

What?

Everyone was stunned, and Xu Yong immediately said: "Boss, what kind of god operation is this?" ”

Luo Sheng looked at everyone with a smile and said: "It's nothing, I'm very optimistic about the e-sports industry, this is a sunrise industry, and it is also quite important to the company, otherwise what do you think I bought Valve and other game companies early?" ”

Speaking of Gabe Newell, he has been getting fatter and fatter recently, and he has gradually become "G-fat"......

Xu Yong shrugged: "Okay, then play." I don't care about the operation department, but I think it's not impossible to start a business by myself, with our financial resources in minutes, but it is relatively fast to acquire the WCG of the Koreans, and it will not cost a few dollars, let me Yunge ......"

After a while, Xu Yong put the computer on his lap, tapped the keyboard quickly, and then looked at the information on the screen and said, "If you want to buy WCG...... The event is hosted by ICM, a South Korean international electronics marketing company, and Samsung Group provides sponsorship money, and Microsoft became one of the sponsors last year. ”

Another P7 engineer sitting in the lounge spoke: "Boss, or just be ruthless and buy Blizzard Entertainment, with our current financial resources, it's no problem at all." ”

Others: "......"

But having said that, the most influential of the current e-sports projects is probably the two RTS game masterpieces "StarCraft" and "Warcraft" under Blizzard Entertainment, followed by "Half-Life" under V Society, which is commonly known as CS games.

"Not to mention, I had the idea of buying Blizzard." Luo Sheng spread his hands on both sides of the sofa, crossed his legs and sat comfortably with his legs, and then added: "It's just that Blizzard is not an independently listed company, we can't accurately know its income and expenditure status and stock market value, and we can't judge how much income it can bring, only Vivendi knows best, it should have made a lot of money, if it wasn't for the cash cow, with the urine of Vivendi Group, Blizzard might have been sold long ago." ”

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