Reborn multinational giant

As for github, ordinary people may have never heard of it, but Fang Zhe, a code farmer, has long admired the most famous open source platform abroad.

Since github was founded in 2008, millions of developers around the world have contributed millions of open source projects to this platform. It can be said that github has now become the mainstay of the software open source industry.

On the surface, github, a code open source platform, seems to have nothing to do with cloud computing business, but looking deeper, the millions of developers on github are all accurate potential customers of cloud computing business.

Moreover, users who are generally willing to contribute and maintain open source projects basically have very good technical strength. They are at least a technical backbone in the work unit or company, even if they are not the management. When the company needs to purchase cloud servers, they are able to The kind of high-quality customers who are talking.

Not to mention, as a world-renowned open source platform, github has considerable influence in the global software industry. In addition to the largest number of ordinary developers, many of the world’s top technology giants, Google, Microsoft and other established IT giants Experts are often active on github.

The acquisition of github can help Huizhong better collect top talents around the world and reserve talents for Huizhong's future development!

Huizhong’s five-year, ten-year development can still rely on Fang Zhe’s rebirth’s prophet and foresight, but in the next twenty, fifty, or even a hundred years, if Fang Zhe still wants Huizhong to flourish , Must lay a solid foundation for Huizhong!

The acquisition of github is not only related to a big step in Huizhong Cloud's business, but also related to the establishment of the foundation for Huizhong's long-term development. Therefore, Fang Zhe and Huizhong's board of directors did not hesitate to pass the wholly-owned acquisition submitted by Li Wenbin and the cloud computing department github solution!

At the end of September, Fang Zhe instructed Huang Siyi, head of Huizhong's investment department, to set up a task force to assist Li Wenbin and the cloud computing department in the acquisition and merger of github and Alibaba Cloud.

For the acquisition of github, Fang Zhe’s capital limit was set at 2 billion U.S. dollars. When Fang Zhe said the upper limit amount, Huang Siyi and others present were all surprised. They did not expect that Fang Zhe would attach so much importance to github, or say So worthy of this github.

You must know that github's profitability is minimal now, and the future business profit model is not clear. From a commercial point of view, the acquisition of this company is not cost-effective. Even if it is really acquired, it is impossible to pay such a high price, although , This price is only the upper limit of funds set by Fang Zhe, but it also reflects the price of github in Fang Zhe’s heart.

Fang Zhe simply explained to them the macro-strategic value of github and didn’t say anything. A few years later, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and other top IT giants cornered the acquisition of github, which was eventually sold by Microsoft for US$7.5 billion. The strategic value is naturally self-evident.

Although Fang Zhe believes that it would not cost much to acquire github so early now, it is still necessary to prepare a minimum fund of 2 billion US dollars to prevent the disruption of giants such as Google and Microsoft!

As for the merger of Alibaba Cloud, although the matter is difficult, Fang Zhe and the executives of Huizhong have also discussed several sets of strategic plans. The first thing they need to do is to convince Alibaba and Alibaba executives that Huizhong It can provide a huge help to Alibaba's going to the sea, and its value will inevitably exceed or even far exceed the value of Alibaba Cloud's survival. After that meeting, it will be time for Fang Zhe and Mr. Ma to meet and chat and sign an agreement with a smile!

Huizhong’s two major plans in the cloud business are proceeding quietly and steadily. Although there are occasional rumors in the outside world, Huizhong officials have never affirmed nor denied it. At the same time, Huizhong has put forward a clear one. This investment has also made many listed companies in the outside world jealous and jealous. Made, if you have money, you don’t have to be so capricious!

In early October, Huizhong wholly acquired the game engine Unity and its company at a price of 1.2 billion US dollars. Unity is a game engine that was born around 2009 that can develop games on computers, consoles, mobile phones and other platforms. With the outbreak of smart phones and mobile Internet around the world, unity, which supports a good mobile game development environment, has begun to shine globally!

Nowadays, unity has become one of the major mobile game development engines in the world like cocos2d under Huizhong. A few years ago, Huizhong had invested in the company where unity was located and became one of its main shareholders. The wholly-owned acquisition of Unity by Zhongzhong will further consolidate Huizhong's leading position in the global game industry.

Immediately afterwards, less than a week later, Huizhong announced the news that it would hold the game company Epic at a price of US$450 million. Epic is a well-known overseas game company. Its representative work "Gears of War" series is well received worldwide. Players are welcome, but now, many Chinese people are still very unfamiliar with this name. Until a few years later, after the "Fortress Night" developed by this company went viral in China, Chinese people began to know its name.

However, what Fang Zhe and Huizhong value more is another product that this company is famous for in the game industry, Unreal Engine!

Unreal Engine is one of the world's top and most mainstream large-scale terminal games, console games and even one of the R&D engines for many 3A masterpieces, including Huizhong, Perfect, NetEase, Blizzard, EA and many other game manufacturers at home and abroad. For many games, similarly, controlling Epic is equivalent to indirectly controlling Unreal Engine, further consolidating Huizhong's leading position in the global game industry.

In addition to these two blockbuster news that smashed the global game industry, Huizhong has continued to invest or acquire many game companies or studios of different sizes around the world as in the past, ensuring Huizhong's dominance in the game industry. The status, like "Clash of Clans" released by Huizhong some time ago, was developed and produced by the game company Supercell acquired by Huizhong in Finland a few years ago.

In the previous life, Tencent spent 8.6 billion US dollars in the heyday of supercell to incorporate spuercell into the bag. However, in this life, under the advantage of Fang Zhe, a reborn, Huizhong originally acquired supercell, but only a few million US dollars. In addition to supercell equity and options for some executives and core backbones, the advantages of the rebirth are helping Fang Zhe almost all the time!

Huizhong has successively spent billions of dollars in the global acquisition of holding game companies to consolidate its absolute leading position in the game industry, which has already envied many Internet companies and game manufacturers around the world.

However, in November, Huizhong has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in several companies, and it has made Internet companies around the world understand what wealthy and willfulness is, and even, once again, like the original O2O, it has brought it around the world. A big entrepreneurial outlet!