Global monopoly of technology

"Up to 475 million U.S. dollars, refused to bargain, I don't care how to buy back, your company's management team will solve it, I will offer the money, you offer the equity, it's that simple."

Luo Sheng was clearly prepared and thoughtful. He didn't hesitate when the other party asked for the price and immediately quoted.

This price left Leon Blunt speechless. It is worth mentioning that according to Take-Two’s current market value of US$1.276 billion, 55% of the equity is equivalent to US$700 million. The initiation of mergers and acquisitions can basically be said to be carried out internally, he did not even go to the secondary market to buy.

"Is it cash?" Leon Blunt asked again.

"Of course it is cash. I have nothing but cash." Luo Sheng said without hesitation. The other party was worried that he would take the equity of Bluestar Technology to complete the acquisition. Even if the other party was willing, Luo Sheng would definitely not do that.

In fact, Leon Blunt didn't want to do this, because the company urgently needed cash.

Immediately I thought about it. Luo Sheng provided US$475 million in cash. 55% of the equity is definitely not enough. Then he has to buy back from the market. The news of the acquisition is definitely unavoidable. Shareholders are not stupid. Once the news is released, it is no surprise that Take-Two's share price will stop falling and rebound strongly.

Leon Blunt put away his thoughts, looked at Luo Sheng and said: "OK, I will try to convince the board of directors, but I don't make an absolute guarantee."

Luo Sheng nodded, and the meeting ended after another 20 minutes of communication.

Obviously, at least Leon Blunt has accepted it, but it will take almost five days to a week before a formal agreement is reached. He also needs to convince the Take-Two board of directors that Leon Blunt is conservative about this matter. He promised Luo Sheng, but he was actually confident.

In comparison, selling oneself to Bluestar Technology is better than being a capital scourge like Vivendi that is purely blood-sucking in the game industry. Luo Sheng’s sincerity surprised him. He can truly love games and devote himself to promoting it. The capital for the development of this industry is really rare.

At Take-Two, Luo Sheng also left a few people for follow-up contract drafting negotiations. These people were naturally drawn from the legal team of the North American branch. He started the negotiations and agreed on the general direction. The following questions are handed over to professional legal staff.

Two days later, when Luo Sheng had just arrived in Seattle, the news that Bluestar Technology was going to acquire Take-Two and the two parties had reached an agreement was finally exposed.

Sure enough, the company's stock rose sharply, and the market's reaction was amazing.

Luo Sheng's operation made the industry and Wall Street incomprehensible again.

As an Internet company, what does it mean to join the game industry inexplicably?

However, even if the investors of Bluestar Technology don’t understand his approach, no one jumped out to oppose it. First, even if they opposed it, Luo Sheng was determined to do one thing and couldn’t stop him. Sheng has never overturned a car.

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"I've heard about it. It seems that Take-Two has accepted your company's takeover offer. Although Valve is not as large as Take-Two, I will never accept your takeover offer, Mr. Luo."

In a reception room, 42-year-old Gabe Logan Newell vowed to the young man in front of him and promised that this young man would not be anyone else except Luo Sheng.

At this time, Luo Sheng was in an interview with the famous "G Fat" in the past, Valve, which was later commonly known as the V company by the players.

Gabe Newell is definitely a unique talent. Coincidentally, he is also a member of the "Dropout Club". He dropped out of Harvard to work for Microsoft and became a programmer. He worked for 13 years, and finally was totally embarrassed. Jiner, always felt that the game is his life, and then left and founded Valve.

The FPS masterpiece "Half-Life" was born from this company eight years ago. At that time, FPS games were basically chugs with guns, and at most a few cutscenes were added.

And "Half-Life" can actually be like a movie, the plot takes place in real time, and it has a sense of substitution. Gamers at the time had never experienced such a game. G Fat and Valve became famous in this battle, and "Half-Life" also It has become one of the most memorable works in the history of the game.

"Rion Blunt was also strongly resisted at the beginning." Luo Sheng smiled: "As a result, he was still willing to follow me."

"He may be involuntary, but Valve is different. I am different. We are not large in scale but healthy and healthy. At the same time, Valve is not a listed company and I am not planning to go public. So, you never want to take my company. "Gabe Newell said firmly, speaking of which, G is not fat at all now.

Luo Sheng naturally used his unique skills, G Fat is a strong master, which is better than Leon Blunt, especially concerned about Valve's control.

However, the more fat G is like this, Luo Sheng thinks this thing can be successful, because no one in this world can escape the "True Fragrance Law", but it is worth mentioning that the "True Fragrance Law" has not been discovered yet. But this kind of law does exist, because many people swear not to do something but do it in the end. This is the true incense law.

To level G fat, Luo Sheng only needs two tricks to get it done, one by flicking, and the other by small money.

As usual, Luo Sheng opened the game by raising his hand first. He praised the way G Fat became an online game store is simply a genius creativity.

At the beginning, G Fat was a bit embarrassed, because the current scale and popularity of Steam is not as exaggerated as Luo Sheng said, after all, he is in his forties.

But this person, even if he is praised, he will never get angry. When he was praised for the first time, Fat G felt that Luo Sheng was killing him. The second time he felt that he was close, but the third time or even the fourth time. The next time...

Under successive bombings, individuals will feel in their hearts that perhaps it is really possible that this is the case, and even the humble people will float up.

At this moment, G Fat feels that Steam is indeed his own genius creativity.

"Steam is definitely only a genius can think of. It is no exaggeration to say that the emergence of Steam is a disruptive innovation for the game industry, and it will bring new changes to the game industry. Especially for small and medium independent game companies, They no longer have to work hard to find a hairstylist. Steam is the best digital distribution platform. Uploading the game to Steam can easily handle everything." Luo Sheng continued to boast without hesitation.

Gradually, more than half an hour has passed before the two sides talked like this.

At this moment, G Fat's heart was so moved, not because of Luo Sheng's various exaggerations, but finally there was someone who could understand him to create Steam.

Friends are hard to find.

Gabe Newell also became more talkative. He said: "In fact, the birth of Steam is not smooth. I have found my old company Microsoft and Yahoo giants, hoping to cooperate with them in development. The reply received is only two letters...NO! Because no one has heard, no one even thought about the "online game store" model. The game industry was not so optimistic at the time, of course, it is still not optimistic. ."

Speaking of G Fat is slightly embarrassed.

The Steam platform was released in 2002. In the early days, I didn’t know what the hell it was. No one could understand G Fat’s products, and no one knew it. It was not well-known. The current fame is still playing with Mingruu in 2003. The CS1.6 of the annals of history came out only when it was bundled online.

Up to now, although third-party games have been stationed on the Steam platform one after another, there are no big-name third parties. As for the super-big third parties such as Ubisoft, Take-Two and Square, you don't even think about it.

Compared with these third-party game developer giants, the current Valve company is still a younger brother, and any company can acquire Valve.

"Maybe others are not optimistic, but I am optimistic, I am here for this." Luo Sheng said with an extremely certain tone: "If you think I am here this time I have taken a fancy to Valve company or its "Haan Tiao" "Fate" is so wrong. What I really like is the Steam platform. This idea is not only a subversion of the game industry, but will even have a huge impact on the global Internet in the future."

Gabe Newell never thought that Luo Sheng would have such a high evaluation of the Steam platform. He originally believed that this model has a lot to do, and now he is undoubtedly more convinced.

This time, Luo Sheng didn't say this with a flicker, but thought so from the heart.

You should know that before Steam, Apple’s App-Store, Google’s Google-Play application store, and even Tengxun’s later We-Game, all had to call Steam "Dad".

Because both Apple's app store and Google's app store are in the same model as Steam, the game company V is the pioneer of the online app store model.

Gabe Newell said furiously: "But I still don't want to be acquired by you. Since Steam has a lot to do, why should I sell it to you?"

Luo Sheng leaned behind the sofa and said slowly with Erlang's legs upright: "If this is the case, from the perspective of commercial competition, you will face the strangulation of a strong enemy, and I will do my best. I swear, and you and I know it. Now Steam has not become a climate, but it is easy for me to strangle it."

If the soft one is not good, then come the hard one, do both, grab both hands and both hands are hard.

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(Ps: The fourth update is over, please ask for votes. The game industry's pit is basically dug, and successfully occupied a pit. In order to lay the foundation for the future virtual game platform, the protagonist will definitely not play the 999 legend in the game industry. It has also been written badly by other commercial science and technology articles. If you want to play, you are also forced to play "Cyberpunk 2077", immersive virtual games and other tall, high-tech elements. It is more of a technology company.)