On the day when I went to Xie Feibai's school, I waited for him to finish his debate. The two of them had a quick meal at the school, and Cheng Ran was about to go back. Before leaving, Xie Feibai said, "You know that Yu Xiao has already made the top three in the Southwest region of the WCG qualifiers. I'm in their group, and then they will go to Beijing for training to participate in the finals..."
"I know the top three and I'm paying attention to them." Cheng Ran raised his head and faced the sunlight shining through the gaps in the trees. He started his own business and accomplished many things that he couldn't do in his previous life because he knew the direction and insisted on doing it, and was forced to act because time was running out. However, looking at Yu Xiao, he has deviated from the trajectory of his previous life and embarked on a path he had always wanted to take, which can even be said to be extremely courageous and pioneering.
A man who was in his mid-life, had several on-and-off relationships, the most important of which was broken up, and did not get married. He worked in the system, so he would not starve to death, but overall he felt that his life was just like that. He once said to Cheng Ran, "You have been wandering for these years, I am mediocre, and we may both be inferior to others." Sometimes, when Cheng Ran called, he would say that he had been drinking heavily for several days and was slow. He was a man who had the will but not the ability.
When he was young and energetic, he made another choice.
"What's going on... We need to train for a whole summer?"
"After the training camp this summer, we will play in the Chinese finals and finally select three people to go to Korea. If there is a game in Korea in December, will you go to watch it? Together." Xie Feibai said.
"If... then go and see..."
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In July, Cheng Ran returned to Chengdu. The number of CQ users was about to exceed 100 million, a goal that was expected to be achieved next month. Now the total number of employees in CQ has reached more than 200. A whole floor of the building is occupied by cubicles for employees, and new employees join the company every one or two days. At this point, Cheng Ran did not often go to CQ headquarters. On the one hand, he did not interfere with the operation of CQ headquarters. On the other hand, there were often reporters and observers outside CQ. If he needed to meet with CQ senior management, Cheng Ran asked the core staff to meet at Tianxingdao Hall.
Lianzhong released the online version of Three Kingdoms. During this growth phase of the domestic online game landscape, Lianzhong continued to occupy the top of the casual game platform and began to actively seek high-quality online game agents.
Lianzhong, CQ Game Department, and Yubi, the alliance this year opened up the channel for game content production and talent exchange. Yubi is a large international game company, but the domestic network distribution channel was taken over by CQ, which originally did not make games. As a result, Yubi had to surrender to others. The French president, Ge Ling, was not willing to be inferior to others, or even to be a wedding dress for others. It was just a compromise of form. Now it is a strategic cooperation with CQ, but in fact, if she can seize the opportunity, she may want to turn things around.
Cheng Ran is preparing to adjust the strategy, mainly with Lianzhong and CQ as the lead, to create a department responsible for entertainment business, separating the CQ game department from the main business. Then this department can focus resources on expanding the territory in the next period of growth of domestic online games, without occupying CQ's operations and interfering with Lianzhong's main leisure game platform.
There were many recommendations from all parties on how to choose the person to be appointed, and Cheng Ran felt that he needed to investigate further. In order to completely prevent CQ and Lianzhong from interfering and maintaining independence, he probably couldn't use the vice president recommended by both parties, and he needed an outsider to parachute in.
Now, both CQ and Lianzhong are being hunted by a group of investors. It’s not that no one has come to ask for investment, but so far there are already seven or eight well-known investment companies that want to contact us, and Softbank Asia has recently approached Lianzhong. And when I came back to chat with Cheng Qi, I learned that Cheng Qi actually invested in and controlled Asia United Games, which is now the Chinese organizer of WCG.
In other words, Samsung Electronics and the South Korean government took the lead in South Korea, and Cheng Qi's Lianzhong served as a co-organizer to start this year's WCG competition...
When Cheng Ran knew this, he really wanted to complain. Why did his brother want to get involved in such a thankless task as WCG
Fortunately, this session is dominated by South Korea, and it is believed that Ourgame will not spend much money. Next year, the South Korean government may not pay. Samsung will take up the banner and continue to hold such large-scale events for marketing as it expands in the global market.
But after all, e-sports is still a niche market. Samsung is pouring money into it every year to gain publicity at a loss, and it is eager to find a few shoulders to shoulder. When the time comes, Cheng Qi should be reminded not to rush to help Samsung on the spur of the moment. It is okay to choose to take advantage of the popularity, just like buying advertising fees. Otherwise, it is putting the cart before the horse. Ourgame is not a big customer like Samsung.
Mainly because Cheng Ran does not want to introduce external capital to dilute his equity given the sufficient funds brought by the gaming business, so the outside world is quite confused about this.
Generally speaking, it is very rare for a company, especially an Internet company, to not need external investment to help it grow, unless the founder is extremely confident in his company and guarantees that his company will not encounter a cold winter or collapse. Otherwise, in the Internet industry, everyone hopes to get a return on cash while making the pie bigger. To put it bluntly, no one can see the prospects so clearly. In order to avoid being soaked by the waves, one still has to go ashore a little and pocket some wealth first.
There is probably only one explanation for the outside world's stingy approach to equity, and that is that online games are indeed a rising cash gold mine, and whoever dominates this mine will have more confidence.
Some people also think that this is based on the remaining cash flow and waiting for the right price.
This method is also successful. For example, MIH's recent investment intention in CQ has increased from 30% stake of 18 million US dollars to 30 million US dollars at a time when CQ is about to reach 100 million users.
This means that CQ's valuation has risen from $60 million to $100 million. This has actually made many domestic Internet companies salivate, but CQ is so willful that it still remains unmoved by the South African sponsor who currently offers the highest price.
There is another report about this, "CQ, what do you want?!" from a media that likes to report in a sensational way. It tries hard to analyze Li Mingshi's intentions, and even uses the overbearing tactics of suppressing the team's desire for cashing out and investors' demand for investment returns to control human greed, once again confirming Li Mingshi's title of cold "alien".
Cheng Ran could only laugh when he saw this report. What he wanted was the inseparable 30%.
As for the valuation... it makes no sense.
This is also the reason why Cheng Ran tries not to go to CQ. Investors in the market have shown sufficient interest in CQ, and are now looking for the holders of shares in CQ's offshore company. Zhao Qing has done sufficient shell setting for this part, making it difficult for people to know that Zhao Qing's holding company is the offshore shareholder of CQ.
But Cheng Ran still has to avoid appearing in public to avoid attracting attention and unnecessary contact. As CQ's valuation gets higher and the outside world becomes more optimistic about it, the interest in them will grow stronger. I'm afraid there will be spies in the industry spying everywhere, so don't underestimate the abilities of these people.
In August, Jiang Hongshao came to Chengdu. Jiang Hongshao has three holidays a year, and only the summer vacation in July and August overlaps with her time in China. Now her parents are in Nanzhou and Beijing respectively. When Jiang Hongshao returns to China, he will stay in both places at most, and finally come to Chengdu to play for a few days accompanied by his aunt Li Yun.
This is also a rare time for the two of them to be together.
They happened to encounter a China-Japan Film Festival exchange meeting in Chengdu, and they watched "Spirited Away" together in the cinema, which had not yet been officially introduced to China.
The conditions for Lao Jiang to come to Chengdu were rather harsh. In the afternoon at dinner time, her sister-in-law Li Yun would pick her up to visit relatives and friends. Naturally, there was no time for them to get together after the evening. So if Cheng Ran wanted to do something, he could only do it when the two of them watched a movie or strolled in the park. When they walked along the secluded path shaded by the jungle, the girl's clothes were wrinkled like a pool of spring water, and the egrets on the lake beach flew away, unable to bear to watch.
Walking out of the path, looking at Jiang Hongshao, who was wearing a black dress with small white flowers, holding hands with him, Cheng Ran felt that she was becoming more and more beautiful and attractive. Before he could admire her enough, the phone rang. It was Yu Xiao calling.
Yu Xiao is now in Beijing for competition training. During this time, he would call Cheng Ran to ask about his situation. Hearing the voice next to him, he asked, "Who is next to you?"
Jiang Hongshao took the phone from Cheng Ran and smiled, "Lao Yu... I heard you're very good... How's your performance? Are you sure you can go to Korea?"
"Damn... Lao Jiang! Aren't you in Nanzhou after returning to China? You actually went to Rongcheng... Tsk tsk, I heard a while ago that you might go to Beijing after returning to China, and I said I would find time to meet you for dinner..."
As a result, there was a commotion over there. It must have been in an Internet cafe, and quite a few people gathered around Yu Xiao, talking at once with all kinds of accents.
"Woman! You're reacting so strongly. Why don't you call your brother Jiang?"
"Wow, Jiang Ge Jiang Ge... Where are you, on the phone?"
"Hello, Moshimoshi!"
Many people on the other end of the phone pulled Yu Xiaoshou and started to cheer into the microphone. Jiang Hongshao curled up the corners of her mouth slightly, looking charming and playful, and smiled at Cheng Ran.
"Hi... I arrived in Beijing, and I brought a camera and an album with me. I was planning to take photos here and develop them, but there were some old photos of us in the album, including yours in Jiuzhaigou, you and me and Cheng Ran at Shanhai No. 1 Middle School, and the one I asked you for after high school graduation. These guys saw it... I couldn't resist their inquiries, so I told them some of your past deeds...
As a result, a group of people shouted that they wanted to be your fans. I told you that you have Lao Cheng, but these guys are still making trouble. I think they have become monks in the training environment. Don’t bother with them... Don’t come over here, get lost... Hey, Hongshao, I’m not talking about you... "
Cheng Ran took the phone from Lao Jiang and heard someone on Yu Xiao's end shouting, "Girl, come to Beijing to have dinner together... Hey, let's get to know each other..."
Holding the phone, Cheng Ran suddenly wanted to discuss with Cheng Qi that Lianzhong Holdings was the organizer of the WCG Asia League, otherwise they should just fire all these guys...
The Chinese team was completely wiped out!
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Nanzhou, HKUST High-Tech Building. Microelectronics Institute Chip R&D Center.
Chen Yue received a report from the Alpha team's chief engineer, who couldn't hide his rising tone, "Our 'source code' has been completely sorted out and is in our hands!"
"Is the source code confirmed to be flawless?" Chen Yue felt his heart tighten. The value of this news would raise his attention to it to a higher level.
“The next step is to stream engineering samples!”
When Chen Yue thought of that future, a torrent rushed up his spine. "I immediately contacted them for tape-out. Once the tape-out is out, we will be able to attend the China IC Industry Forum at the beginning of the year!"