Global monopoly of technology

On the morning of the third day, Luo Sheng received news from John Paulson that Paulson's hedge fund had another income remitted to his account, with a total net income of US$2.15 billion.

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

The money came quickly and easily, and it gave Luo Sheng the feeling that it was almost the same as the wind blowing.

To say how you feel... Of course it is a cool stroke.

Bluestar Technology Group’s current large-scale company’s revenue in the middle of last year was only more than 10 billion U.S. dollars, and its cash reserves have only been more than 10 billion U.S. dollars so far. It is a gambling with the North American housing market, and it’s 100 per minute. Multi-billion dollar net income.

Simply put, Luo Sheng's current personal wealth is already on par with the entire Bluestar Technology Group, and even his worth has surpassed Bill Gates.

Because most of Gates' worth are real estate, and Luo Sheng can now put out more than 10 billion US dollars at any time. This is his personal disposable assets, not the company's assets.

The two hedging foundations successively settled all the proceeds and remitted them to the investor's account in the next days. Luo Sheng was initially excited for a while and he did not keep watching.

It can't run anyway, someone from the offshore fund will help you take care of it, and you can just check the total after all the proceeds are received.

...

Mid to late August.

Luo Sheng ended his usual routine work. For the company's daily operation and management, Zhang Bowen is in charge of the Bluestar Technology Group, and Yao Jianhong is in charge of the Blue Coast. These two are actual performers who do practical things.

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

At the end of the week, there are an average of five or six meetings per day, either formal or informal meetings.

During the [Azure] plan, during those few years, Luo Sheng worked hard every day. At a young age, he was as hard as a toil. He worked no less than 100 hours a week, which was equivalent to 14 hours a day. More than hours.

At that time, I was really nervous, and I had to grab the time for product release.

After entering 2007, Luo Sheng didn't fight as much as before. For the first time, there was a weekend. It used to work every day. Normally, the weekend is a rest time, and the holiday is also on vacation. He will never work when he should rest.

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

Even so, Luo Sheng still maintains 70 hours of work per week, that is, from Monday to Friday, he still has to work 14 hours a day.

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

Entering 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 an overnight plan, but after the launch of the Bluestar Technology Group’s business will immediately usher in a brand-new leap. As for the latter, more plans will be made for the next ten to twenty years, and this year will mainly be the smooth launch of movie-level advertising. The promo, first set up the setting of Hatsune Miku, a virtual idol.

But to become a real idol, a large behind-the-scenes team needs to be carefully cultivated.

Day by day, Luo Sheng spent less and less time in the technical development team, and gradually got rid of it, and the follow-up development was left to He Chao's team.

As for Luo Sheng who got out, he would naturally not be idle, nor was he a master who could come down freely.

Entering the end of August, Luo Sheng's eyes shifted to the game field, to be precise, the new field of e-sports.

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

The Koreans created the e-sports industry, and they also relied on e-sports to get out of the financial turmoil of 1997. In a sense, the Koreans actually relied on a video game to get out of the economic quagmire. This is not an exaggeration, but has already happened. fact.

To a large extent, Koreans got out of the financial crisis by relying on "StarCraft". In addition to its outstanding popularity, this game's popularity is to a certain extent caused by the times.

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

For this reason, the Koreans established the World Electronic Sports Competition-WCG.

The most popular e-sports game right now is undoubtedly "StarCraft". Its professional league began in 1999, which is also the beginning of the e-sports industry.

Nowadays, the e-sports industry has entered its ninth year since its birth. The current "StarCraft" e-sports game, together with football and archery, is known as South Korea’s "Three National Skills". The mature commercial operation and professional competition organization make other countries' e-sports industry envy.

This also makes South Korea’s e-sports industry at the forefront of the world. Its mature coaching system, training system, selection system, and competition system are all very complete. In addition, Samsung Group, telecommunications duo SK Telecom, KTF sponsor.

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

According to the "Wall Street Journal" report, excellent professional players can get hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual salary. Measured by South Korean economic standards, the income of professional players is already very impressive, and the popularity of players is no less than that of the first-line Korean entertainment industry. Star celebrities, there was a StarCraft finals last year that attracted 120,000 spectators to watch the scene.

It can be seen that the e-sports industry is booming in Korea.

...

At the Bluestar Technology Company's technical department, Luo Sheng, Xu Yong and others were in a lounge eating free snacks and chatting. It was so pleasant.

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

Xu Yong and the others were stunned for a while when they heard it. This question jumped too far.

"WCG? Are you talking about the WCG for World E-Sports Competition?" Xu Yong asked uncertainly.

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

Hearing this, Xu Yong sang a song on the laptop next to him and said: "Not yet, this year is the seventh. It will start in October, and there will be more than a month left."

After speaking, Xu Yong pushed his notebook aside and looked back at Luo Sheng suspiciously: "What are you asking about this?"

Luo Sheng seemed to be muttering to himself: "You said, should I start a new one by myself? Or can I just buy WCG?"

What?

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

Luo Sheng smiled and looked at everyone and said: "Nothing, I am very optimistic about the e-sports industry. This is a sunrise industry, and it is also very important to the company. Otherwise, you think I will acquire several game companies such as Valve early. What is it for?"

Speaking of which, Gabe Newell has been getting fatter recently, gradually becoming "G fat"...

Xu Yong shrugged: "Okay, let's play. I don't care about the operation department, but I feel that it is not impossible to start a business by myself. With our financial resources, we still acquired the Korean WCG. It’s faster, and it’s not a lot of money. Let me sing about it..."

After a while, Xu Yong put the computer on his lap, quickly tapped the keyboard, and then looked at the message on the screen and said: "If you want to acquire WCG... This event is hosted by the Korean international electronic marketing company ICM and Samsung Group Provide sponsorship fees, oh, last year Microsoft also became one of the sponsors."

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

other people:"……"

But having said that, the current e-sports projects, probably the most influential are the two RTS game masterpieces "StarCraft" and "Warcraft" under Blizzard Entertainment, followed by "Half-Life" under V agency. Also known as the CS game.

"Don't tell me, I had the idea of ​​buying Blizzard." Luo Sheng spread his hands on both sides of the sofa, sitting with his legs crossed in a comfortable posture, and immediately added: "It's just that Blizzard is not an independent listed company. We cannot accurately know its revenue and expenditure status and stock market value, and cannot judge how much revenue it can bring. Only Vivendi knows this best. It should be a lot of money. If it is not a cash cow, take Vivendi Group The urinary sex may have sold Blizzard long ago."

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[Ps: Arrange to enter the two major fields of "virtual idol" and "e-sports". For the protagonist, these two fields are groundbreaking emerging industries in the plot. Step by step, although it gives people the first impression It is entertainment attribute, but it is high-tech in essence. Now it is from scratch, but technology will develop. Compared to what everyone might have predicted, both of them are more closely linked to high-tech such as holographic projection. Including future virtual reality technology, etc. The last thing our protagonist has to do is of course high-tech elements]