Chapter 212： [Otherwise, buy Blizzard directly? 】

, The latest chapter in the latest global monopoly of technology!

By the early morning of the third day, Luo Sheng received the news from John Paulson, and the Paulson hedge fund had another income remitted to his account, with a total net profit of 2.15 billion US dollars.

Then in the afternoon, Michael Barry's successor fund also remitted a second income, a total of $ 1.9 billion in net income.

The money came quickly and easily, and Luo Sheng's feeling was almost the same as the wind.

If you have any feelings ... Of course it's a good stroke.

Bluestar Technology Group is a company of such a large scale. Last year's revenue was only more than 10 billion US dollars. Until now, its cash reserves have been more than 10 billion US dollars. Gambling with the North American housing market is only 100 minutes Multi-billion dollar net income.

Simply put, Luo Sheng's personal wealth is now comparable to the entire Bluestar Technology Group, and even his worth of gold has surpassed Bill Gates.

Because Gates is mostly real estate, and Luo Sheng can now take out more than 10 billion US dollars at any time, this is his personal disposable assets, not the company's assets.

In the following days, the two hedge funds successively settled all the proceeds and remitted them into the investor's account. Luo Sheng was initially excited and did not keep staring.

Anyway, I can't run it. Someone from the offshore fund will take care of it, and wait until all the income is in the account.

...

Mid to late August.

Luo Sheng ended his usual routine work. The daily operation management of the company was held by Zhang Bowen of Blue Star Technology Group and Yao Jianhong of the Blue Coast. Both of them were actual performers of practical work.

As for Luo Sheng, about half of the daily work time is spent on technology development, the other 20% of the time is to approve various materials and bills, and the remaining 30% is used for meetings.

Every week, on average, there are five or six meetings, or formal or informal meetings.

During the [Azure] plan, Luo Sheng worked hard every day for those few years. He was just as old as a hard worker. He worked no less than 100 hours a week, which is equivalent to 14 hours a day. More than an hour.

That period of time was really tight, and we had to grab the time for product launch.

After entering 2007, Luo Sheng did not work as hard as before. For the first time, he had a weekend, and he used to work every day. Now, normally, weekends are the rest time. Holidays are also taken during vacations. When it is time to rest, he will never work.

For the first time, the line between work and personal life was clearly defined.

Even so, Luo Sheng still maintains 70 hours of work per week, which means that there are still 14 hours of work every day from Monday to Friday.

There really isn't much free time to manage such a huge business empire.

In the second half of 2007, Luo Sheng's work has basically focused on two new projects, "online cloud translation" and "virtual idol".

The former is not a one-time plan, but after its launch, Bluestar Technology Group's business will immediately usher in a brand new leap. As for the latter, it will be more planned for the next one or two decades, and this year is mainly to successfully launch movie-level advertising. In the promotional video, first set up the virtual idol of Hatsune Miku.

But to become a true idol, a huge team behind the scenes needs to be carefully cultivated.

Time passed day by day, Luo Sheng's time in the technology development group was also getting less and less, and gradually released from it, the subsequent development was handed over to He Chao's team.

As for Luo Sheng who pulled out, he naturally would not do nothing, and he would not be a master who could relax.

Entering late August, Luo Sheng's gaze shifted to the game field, which is exactly a brand new field of e-sports.

The e-sports industry is undoubtedly a brand new field at present, and the global market for the entire e-sports 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, the field of e-sports also has strong linkage with Bluestar Technology and the business of the Blue Coast, which is regarded as an important part of the moat by Luo Sheng.

The Koreans created the e-sports industry, and also got out of the financial turmoil in 1997 by e-sports. In a sense, the Koreans walked out of the economic quagmire by relying on a video game. This is not an exaggeration, but it has happened. fact.

The Koreans have largely come out of the financial crisis with StarCraft. In addition to its outstanding popularity, this game has been created to a certain extent by the current situation.

At the time of the Asian financial turmoil, StarCraft was released at that time and quickly became popular in South Korea. South Korea promoted the game with the power of the country and created a brand new industry-e-sports.

To this end, the Koreans set up the World E-sports Competition-WCG.

The most popular e-sports game now is undoubtedly "StarCraft". Its professional league started in 1999 and is also the beginning of the e-sports industry.

Today, the e-sports industry has entered its ninth year from the date of its birth. The current "StarCraft" e-sports game is known as South Korea's "three national skills" along with football and archery. South Korea's Star League The mature commercial operation and professional event organization make other e-sports industries envy.

This also puts South Korea's e-sports industry at the forefront of the world. Its mature coaching system, training system, selection system, and event system are very complete. In addition, Samsung Group, Telecom Shuangxiong SK Telecom, KTF sponsor.

It can be said that the status quo of the development of the e-sports industry in South Korea is in full swing.

According to the Wall Street Journal, outstanding professional players can get hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual salary. Measured by Korean economic standards, this professional player's income is already very considerable, the popularity of players is no less than the front line of the Korean entertainment industry. Star Café, a Starcraft Finals one year ago attracted 120,000 viewers to watch the scene.

This shows the prosperity of the e-sports industry in South Korea.

...

The technology department of Bluestar Technology Co., Ltd., Luo Sheng and Xu Yong were chatting in the lounge with free snacks.

"Hey, when will this WCG session start this year? Or is it already finished?" Luo Sheng asked suddenly.

Xu Yong and others were hesitating for a while, this question jumped too far.

"WCG? Are you referring to the WCG for the short name of the World E-sports Competition?" Xu Yong asked with uncertainty.

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

Hearing that, Xu Yongshun sang a song on the laptop next to him and said, "Not yet. This is the seventh session. It will start in October, and there will be more than one month."

After speaking, Xu Yong pushed the notebook aside and looked back at Luo Shenghu doubtingly, "What do you ask?"

Luo Sheng seemed to say to himself: "You said, did I start another stove myself? Or did I buy WCG directly?"

What?

The crowd circled, Xu Yong said immediately, "Boss, what is this God's operation?"

Luo Sheng looked at the crowd with a smile and said, "Nothing, I am very optimistic about the e-sports industry. This is a rising industry and is very important to the company. Otherwise, you think I would buy several game companies such as Valve For what? "

Speaking of which, Gabe Newell is getting fatter recently, gradually "G fat" evolution ...

Xu Yong shrugged: "Okay, let's play 我. I don't care about the operation department, but I feel that it is not impossible to start a thing by our own financial resources, but I still bought the Korean WCG It ’s faster, and it does n’t cost me more money. Let me sing a song ... ”

After a while, Xu Yong took the computer to his lap, hit the keyboard quickly, then looked at the message on the screen and said, "If you want to buy WCG ... This event is hosted by Korea International Electronic Marketing Company ICM, and Samsung Group Provide sponsorship fees. Oh, and Microsoft became one of the sponsors last year. "

Another P7-level engineer sitting in the lounge said, "Boss, just be a little bit harder and buy Blizzard Entertainment. With our current financial resources, there is no problem at all."

other people:"……"

But having said that, the most influential e-sports project of UU Kanshu is probably the two RTS games masterpieces "StarCraft" and "Warcraft" by Blizzard Entertainment, followed by the V agency. "Half-Life", also known as the CS game.

"Don't say, I had the idea of ​​buying Blizzard." Luo Sheng spread his hands on both sides of the sofa, sitting on a sofa with his legs crossed, and added: "But Blizzard is not an independent company. We ca n’t accurately know its income and expenditure status and stock market value, so we ca n’t judge how much revenue it can bring. This is only Vivendi's most clear. It should be a lot of money. If it is not a cash cow, Vivendi Maybe he already sold Blizzard. "

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[Ps: Arranged to enter the two fields of "virtual idol" and "e-sports". These two fields are pioneering emerging industries in the plot for the protagonist. It is an entertainment property, but it is high-tech in nature. Now it is from nothing, but technology will develop. Compared with everyone, it may be predicted that these two technologies are more holographic and have a strong linkage. Including future virtual reality technology, etc., the last thing our protagonist must do is of course high-tech elements]