In the previous life, about the majority shareholder of the penguin,

There used to be such a saying circulating on the Internet:

The major shareholder behind Penguin is the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, so Penguin is actually a state-owned company.

Here's how this statement is explained:

South Africa's MIH Group is the direct majority shareholder of Penguin, accounting for more than 30% of Penguin's shares;

Among them, South Africa's Standard Bank Group is also the majority shareholder of South Africa's MIH Group; In 2008, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China acquired a 20% stake in South Africa's Standard Bank Group.

In short, it is such an equity link:

Penguin → MIH Group of South Africa→ Standard Bank Group of South Africa → Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.

As soon as this claim was proposed, it immediately caused a wide spread on the Internet, and many people believed it to be true.

But the facts are more slap in the face, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has nothing to do with the penguins, and the penguins are not controlled by state-owned assets.

Prior to 2002, the South African MIH Group was indeed controlled by the Standard Bank Group of South Africa.

However, after 2002, due to the Standard Bank Group of South Africa itself, it sold all the shares of South Africa's MIH Group and transferred it to the South African media giant Naspers.

So since 2002, Penguin has become an indirect company controlled by Naspers.

ICBC, on the other hand, has a 20% stake in South Africa's Standard Bank Group, but it was acquired in 2008.

At this moment, South Africa's Standard Bank Group has long ceased to hold shares in South Africa's MIH Group, and ICBC holds Penguin, where to start?

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Many people fall into the misunderstanding that behind the penguins is ICBC, which is actually a kind of patriotic sentiment caused by good expectations.

In fact, our country's attitude towards foreign investors is relatively open, and Alibaba's largest shareholder is Neon's SoftBank.

Baidu's largest shareholder is Meiguo's Defengjie Company.

Only major resources related to the national economy and people's livelihood cannot be sold, and other upper levels are more tolerant.

For example, support Musk to set up factories in China, and support the investment of Kai-Fu Lee, Masayoshi Son and others in China.

It can be said that Masayoshi Son and Kai-Fu Lee have supported many well-known Internet companies in China, and without the participation of these foreign capitals, many companies with great potential may be stillborn.

In fact, this also reflects the wisdom of high-level decision-making and the spirit of inclusiveness of major countries.

The entry of foreign capital is not entirely a bad thing, the most intuitive one is that it can provide a large number of employed people.

Second, for the local area, it can drive economic growth.

Then, if foreign capital can bring more advanced technology and management, it will promote the continuous enrichment and improvement of the domestic industrial chain, and can also promote scientific and technological progress.

Foreign capital is not necessarily a flood beast, the key is whether you can use it well.

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China actually attaches great importance to data security, but it is not to the extent of completely suppressing foreign-funded enterprises, for example, Apple has the problem of monitoring the data of Apple mobile phone users, so China will let them store all the data in China.

This is also the Guizhou on the cloud that was born later.

The same is true for other companies, any data related to national security, data related to personal information, all of which are stored in the country, and you have to ensure independence and confidentiality from a technical point of view, then there is no problem.

Therefore, even if Qingzhiyuan acquires Penguin, as long as the server and all the related data are put in China, then the problem will not be too big.

This aspect must be audited, and Qing Zhiyuan is not afraid of this.

Generally speaking, China is more reasonable than the United States, and has a broader thinking and vision, and is a higher-latitude way of communication and governance.

It also embodies the demeanor and courage of a great country.

There are loose and tight, there are put and take, as long as you follow the rules, there is no problem.

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Regarding the acquisition of penguins, Qing Zhiyuan thinks so.

First of all, he was a Chinese in his previous life, and now he has half Chinese blood, although his nationality is neon, but in his heart he definitely hopes that China will progress and develop rapidly.

As a businessman, it is true that Qing Zhiyuan wants to make profits, but he can also be a cross-international friendly business friend to China.

In the future, helping the development and progress of China's Internet industry and promoting the continuous improvement of science and technology are all things that Qingzhiyuan wants to do.

Through the layout in China, conform to the trend of the times, open up the market and make profits, which is also what Qingzhiyuan pursues.

It does not contradict each other, and can even be said to be quite harmonious in a development path.

The reason why Qingzhiyuan wants to get an absolute controlling stake is to let Penguin promote and develop according to its own ideas at the source, and cooperate with Pokeni to combine the Internet and games.

On the one hand, it is to promote the application of RTT, reserve users, and on the other hand, to direct users to the online mode of pokeni in the future, that is, the dandelion platform created by P Society.

After the dandelion platform is built, RTT can become a pure chat tool on its own in the future, and then split it out and return it to China.

Just like pokeni sells RTT business in the United States, in order to avoid suspicion, it is completely possible to sell these industries related to data security and personal user privacy to Chinese state-owned enterprises.

To put it bluntly, Qing Zhiyuan is not interested in governance, and he doesn't want to touch this thing.

He just wants to build a network that connects the world and then bring the game to the world.

In Qing Zhiyuan's ideal, the penguin, or China's game environment, he is looking forward to, is not a big environment where plagiarism is king, but a game atmosphere that can be people-oriented and create fun and spread culture from the perspective of players.

It's not bad money chasing good money, but real gold panning in the sand.

Moreover, although many people don't like games and think that games are a flood beast and poison children, there is a very important fact:

The pearl of modern science and technology, the giant in the microcosm -

Chips are indeed constantly iterating and improving under the impetus of games.

In the case of graphics cards, it is impossible for players to develop so fast without the constant push of games, and the growing demand for newer and better games.

If it is only used to meet the needs of daily life and meet the computing of the real industry, it is actually enough for a long time, and there is no need to upgrade and iterate the graphics card once a year.

The smartphones that came after didn't need to develop more advanced chips if they weren't for the higher quality, faster, and faster network games.

Therefore, when Qingzhiyuan enters China, he can actually promote the development of China's chip industry through his own modest efforts to a certain extent, and it cannot be said that the problem of stuck neck can be completely solved, at least it can have a certain positive effect.

What's more, after the acquisition of Sega, Pokeni's scientific and technological level and knowledge reserve in the semiconductor field have come to the world's first-class ranks, and in terms of strength, Qingzhiyuan can completely copy and create relevant hardware factories in China, so as to promote the development and progress of the upstream and downstream ranks.

However, one of the major problems that needs to be faced is the ban on game consoles.

Just thinking about it makes me feel extremely headache, and Qing Zhiyuan actually doesn't plan to gnaw on this hard bone.

In short, Qing Zhiyuan wants to go with the flow, from the perspective of businessmen and half of the Chinese, the acquisition of penguins is the first step, and this move should be a win-win result.

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Considering that the penguins will be more able to burn money in the future, Qing Zhiyuan and Xiao Ma Ge decided to increase the acquisition funds from the original $10 million to $30 million after several rounds of negotiations and games.

And when the acquisition is successful, Pokeni will continue to transfuse blood to penguins in the future, in short, so that Brother Pony can settle down and continue to manage the company, Qing Zhiyuan himself also said that he will not change the functions and roles of several people in Penguin, and will rely more on them in the future.

It may be that the acquisition amount is a little less than the previous stake in Nvidia, but the specific amount is actually relative.

The level of money burning in the United States and the level of burning money in China will be greatly affected and fluctuated in different countries, and 100 million US dollars may be limited in the United States, but 30 million US dollars can do a lot in China.

Especially in the 90s, China can be said to provide a very high-quality business environment, and the upstream and downstream industrial chains, including raw material prices, labor costs, service costs, etc., are far lower than those of developed countries.

Therefore, Qingzhiyuan gave Penguin 30 million US dollars, which is equivalent to what can be done with more than 300 million US dollars in the United States, and even greater than this potential energy.

And another point is to look at the market environment, now all kinds of Internet companies in the United States have actually existed for a long time, and the competition between them is also fierce.

However, in China's Internet industry, the BAT giants are still small babies, and it can be said that there is still a big blue ocean in this field.

$30 million may not be able to make a splash in the big pool of the United States, but it can set off huge waves in the big blue ocean of China's Internet.

In 1999, the exchange of dollars for soft sister coins was about 1 to 8, which is equivalent to Qing Zhiyuan investing almost 250 million soft sister coins in one go, which is actually quite a considerable number.

Qing Zhiyuan carrot and stick, and with great sincerity, and then also said that he would respect the Xiao Ma team, which is equivalent to using the power of Pokeni to allow the penguins to quickly establish advantages and generate cash, after there is enough potential energy, the penguin side Qing Zhiyuan will let go of Xiao Ma and they will manage themselves.

Who wants to their heart for the rest of their lives instead of lying down and earning money?

After listening to Qing Zhiyuan's thoughts, the members of Xiao Ma's team were a lot more down-to-earth, but they didn't give an answer on the spot, but hoped to give them some time to discuss before they could finally make a decision.

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In fact, Xiao Ma's team thought about it for less than a week and agreed to the business plan proposed by Qing Zhiyuan.

There's really not much room to think about, and the answer is obvious.

Rather than being sued by Pokeni for bankruptcy, it is better to accept Pokeni's investment directly, not only to obtain genuine authorization, but also to have the support of a large consortium to inject more funds and provide technical support to Penguin.

Why not?

If you were a normal person, you would probably have to make the same choice.

Qing Zhiyuan didn't care about the next thing anymore, and left it to Iwata Satoshi to be responsible.

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After the acquisition of Penguin, the first phase of Qingzhiyuan's goal can be regarded as achieved.

After doing this, Qing Zhiyuan flew to the United States non-stop and continued to carry out his other acquisition plan-

Google.

At the end of last year, Google had just been established and had not yet officially opened, so far, Google has only opened one website, and the search engine has not yet been developed.

In the field of search engines, P-net can be said to have started early, as early as when P-net was first established, Qingzhiyuan has been asking relevant departments to carry out search engine research and development.

So now P-net's search engine can be said to be far ahead, and the daily visit and search volume is the first in the world.

However, this does not mean that Qingzhiyuan does not want Google, their foundation and the strength of R&D personnel are still there, and in the case of already having a corresponding business, Qingzhiyuan's acquisition of Google will become easier.

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In fact, as Qingzhiyuan expected, the two founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were a little surprised when they heard that Qingzhiyuan would make a strong investment, but finally agreed.

Son's acquisition routine has now been played quite well by Qing Zhiyuan.

First of all, let me tell you, if I don't get a stake, then where will the money go to my competitors.

Then, many of the patents in search engines have actually been registered by P-NET, and many of them are unavoidable in any case, such as the web page classification system, the label mechanism, the web page information big data classification management and the corresponding algorithm mechanism are P-net original.

In the future, if Google wants to fight its way out of the search engine, it will inevitably have to deal with P-NET.

Patents for their innovative technologies can be exchanged, but these are high costs.

This is the first-mover advantage, after getting in the car, the track is occupied, and a series of industry rules are formulated, and the latecomers can only pinch their noses and follow you.

The corresponding technology licensing, along with the injection of funds, can help Google build an advantage in the short term, and if it doesn't agree, it will invest in competitors......

There isn't much room for Google's founders to choose.

Once you accept the principle of "join if you can't beat it", you will find that it is actually quite comfortable to cooperate with Qingzhiyuan.

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In the end, Pokeni acquired a 35% stake in Google for $50 million, plus a series of intellectual property licensing and technical assistance.

Qing Zhiyuan breathed a sigh of relief, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, revealing a smug smile.

It's good, now that the layout has a big shape, it's up to you to see how each step goes in the future.

Grow up with two little seedlings, penguins and Google.

Just thinking about it, Qing Zhiyuan's whole body trembled.

It's terrifying, what a terrifying behemoth the pokeni of the future will be!

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Happy New Year!

I wish you all a prosperous new year

Today's brother-in-law's wedding, I should not come back until very late, and I have to accompany the wine or something, I definitely can't code words.

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See you tomorrow (end of chapter)