Reborn multinational giant

Chapter 197 Acquisition of "Minecraft" ("Piginthesky" title update)

Although Zhongying’s domestic capital has not yet launched investment, overseas, Zhongying’s overseas capital has already opened. Although Zhongying’s overseas capital has only invested once after its opening, the return on investment this time is as high as Fang Zhe’s estimate Thousands of times!

The first investment of Zhongying Overseas Capital was a fund broker. Under Fang Zhe's instruction, he bought all the copyrights of "Minecraft" at a price of 300,000 US dollars.

"Minecraft" was originally developed and produced by two independent Swedish developers. The public beta date of this game in the previous life was in May of this year. Fang Zhe stayed and waited for a while, and worked hard. After the establishment of Zhongying Overseas Capital , Asked the fund broker to go to Sweden to contact the two independent developers.

Generally, foreign independent developers can earn 100,000 U.S. dollars a year, which is pretty good. Therefore, after the agent proposed to purchase the game they developed for 200,000 U.S. dollars, they just bargained and added For 100,000 US dollars, he did not hesitate to sell the relevant copyrights of this game to Zhongying Overseas Capital.

Considering that Zhongying Capital is only an investment fund and does not operate a specific commercial business like a company, Fang Zhe instructed his agent to invest 500,000 US dollars in Sweden and set up a game company to operate this game. The two producers who created it, one accepted the invitation of the agent and became the CEO of this company, and became a senior part-time worker, and the other continued to play an independent game after being paid $100,000.

Fang Zhe didn’t care much about this. In his previous life, the two of them also parted ways after the acquisition by Microsoft. What happened now is just to advance the history. As for the production of the subsequent version of "Minecraft" In terms of distribution, Fang Zhe is not very worried, because the person who is the CEO is basically the main person in charge of the development of "Minecraft", and the other person who partnered with him is just a start.

In the previous life, Microsoft spent 2.5 billion US dollars to acquire the company where "Minecraft" is located for its own VR business. Now, Fang Zhe is waiting for "Minecraft" and its company to appreciate, and then sell it directly. Make a lot of money for Microsoft. As for whether to keep "Minecraft" in Huizhong's own development, we have to see whether Huizhong's business layout is necessary and whether Huizhong is not short of money. If Huizhong didn't miss the 2.5 billion US dollars at the time, it wouldn't be a big deal for Huizhong to keep "Minecraft" and make it by itself.

Zhongying's overseas capital has already made some gains. In China, Fang Zhe has also started the first investment since the establishment of Zhongying's domestic capital in order to cooperate with Huizhong's layout and development of payment business.

On May 25th, Zhongying’s domestic capital broker Fu Xinming and a director of Huizhong’s investment department conducted a detailed investigation and inspection of the Jianghai Zaras company where Ele. After reporting the investigative report on Investing in Ele.me, they have had many contacts with Ele.me. As long as the boss Fang Zhe nodded, basically the first investment will be in place soon.

For this investment, Fang Zhe plans to let Zhongying Capital and Huizhong Investment Department make a joint investment in Ele.me. Zhongying Capital leads the investment and Huizhong Investment Department follows the investment. This is also to consider the performance of Huizhong Investment Department. And development, the establishment of Zhongying Capital is that Fang Zhe made money from investing in these unicorns. The investment of Huizhong Investment Department is mainly based on Huizhong’s business.

At this stage, Ele.me is just in its infancy. Although the earlier the return on investment, the greater the return on investment, but just getting started means slower business development. Huizhong’s payment business can’t expect Ele. For the most part, we still have to grasp the vertical e-commerce business that has entered a period of rapid development in the past two years. So the O2O business like Ele.me is currently led by Zhongying Capital, and Huizhong Investment Department is taking the lead.

On May 27, during his inspection of Jianghai branch, Fang Zhe approved the decision of Zhongying Capital to invest 1.5 million and Huizhong Investment Department to invest 500,000 to Ele.me to jointly invest 2 million, accounting for 20% of the shares. Now I am hungry. The Zarath Company, where you are working, has a registered capital of only a little over 1 million, and the takeaway business has just started in major universities in Jianghai, and the revenue is almost pitiful, so it can have a valuation of 10 million, the founder of Ele.me Zhang Xu is quite satisfied.

More importantly, Zhang Xu met him in the Jianghai branch of Huizhong, and he met Fang Zhe, the big behind-the-scenes boss who has been hearing about and curious since the beginning of contact with Zhongying Capital and Huizhong Investment Department. Since the contact, he checked a lot of information about Huizhong on the Internet. After knowing that this company owns the largest domestic web game platform with monthly revenue of several hundred million, the founder is two years younger than him. The boss of this company became very curious.

Therefore, after accepting investment from Zhongying Capital and Huizhong, at Zhang Xu's request, Fang Zhe agreed to meet with him.

Fang Zhe nowadays no longer has the mentality of seeing everyone as a big boss when he is just reborn, except for big bosses like Mr. Lei, two, Ma, and Li, who have been famous in the Internet industry for a long time, like "Zhang Xu". In the eyes of Fang Zhe, this is nothing more than that.

Even after the two met, Zhang Xu was very cautious in front of him because of the gap between the investor and the company.

In the Jianghai branch office, Fang Zhe looked a little stiff as he entered the door, Zhang Xu, who didn't know where to step on his feet, said in a relaxed tone:

"Don't be nervous, just sit down and drink something? Tea? Drink?"

"Coke is fine! Iced is the best!" Zhang Xu cautiously sat on the sofa meeting the guests at Fang Zhe's greeting, and said back.

Fang Zhe smiled, no wonder Zhang Xu looks a little fat, and no wonder this guy founded "Are you hungry?" which is a takeaway. At least judging from his answer just now, this guy is eating and drinking. unambiguous.

Fang Zhe took a bottle of iced Coke from the refrigerator, and another bottle of iced fruit beer for himself, walked over and handed him the Coke, and said:

"I heard Fu Xinming say that you want to see me? It's about our investment this time. Do you have any questions?"

"No!...but there are also!" Zhang Xu said tangledly, and then frankly said:

"I'm still telling you the truth. I don't have any doubts about the specific details of your investment. We have already discussed this clearly before, but to be honest, I personally thank you for investing in our company. But there are still some doubts more or less. For example, Mr. Fang, why did you invest in our company?

"Boom!" Fang Zhe opened the lid of the fruit beer, and a refreshing aroma of wine wafted out gently. Fang Zhe leaned in his mouth and took a sip. It felt very refreshing in the hot summer.

After taking a sip of the peel, Fang Zhe looked at Zhang Xu and asked:

"Why, didn't Mr. Fu tell you clearly before?"