Text Chapter 1195: Going to Seattle

World of Tanks, on the third day, Zhou Jiexi finally had time to chat about business. Last night, he kept Charlotte well through the night a few times, and he went into the space to refresh himself. Then, naturally, the woman didn't want to get up in the morning, and wanted to stay in the hotel for half a day, and also deal with her interpersonal relationship by the way.

Some people who need to be contacted and greeted, she just needs to call or send a message.

Zhou Jiexi just happened to deal with the business of being here this time.

When you come to World of Tanks, the first thing you see is the beautiful front desk. In addition, there is the current major shareholder, Victor's father.

The members of Zhou Jiexi's negotiating team also arrived here two days ago. The specific matters have been reviewed with World of Tanks. As far as the prospect of the game is concerned, they think it is not as good as the top five games of Sky Games. charge more.

But Zhou Jiexi thinks that he can make money, and he is really optimistic about the prospect of this game, and his subordinates can't help it, so let's negotiate!

World of Tanks has been developing World of Tanks for three consecutive years. This also made Victor's old father take a higher and higher proportion of shares, and the family's economic situation gradually became less optimistic.

Originally, I wanted to suffer, maybe after selling the agency rights in several regions, I could get back my money. However, the appearance of Zhou Jiexi also made Victor see another direction. In addition to getting rid of the checks and balances of his father, the major shareholder, he can also improve his own game.

So with everyone's intentions, Zhou Jiexi took a stake in World of Chariots. Became the largest shareholder, accounting for 40% of the shares.

Victor's father is the second shareholder, with nearly 25% in his hand. Victor himself owns fifteen percent of the shares. The remaining 10% or so will be held by company shareholders or executives to maintain the stability of the team.

Tens of millions were spent, but Zhou Jiexi felt very good, especially the scene of the tanks rushing into the battle. He felt that this would definitely be a game that men would like.

It is also very technical, and the data distribution is very reasonable. There is no problem in developing it into a competitive event in the future.

After investing in this special game company, Zhou Jiexi finally found the right place to spend his money. Compared with investing in an entertainment company, that Lucasfilm, he doesn't know when he will be able to recover the cost.

It is also impossible to invest in land, where money always stays in the land. You can't run, and you don't need to worry much, unless it is submerged by sea water, but according to American law, if your land is submerged by the sea, at least that piece of sea is still yours. In the future, you can fish and eat yourself, and you will be hungry no.

Well now, invest in a game company. Look at his mobile game company now. It doesn't take much effort to build a headquarters worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

He didn't get involved in PC games very much, which also has something to do with how little he played online games in his previous life. But after investing in World of Tanks, the door to computer and online games opened to him. If you don’t spend so much money, what are you doing with it?

There are also some Facebook shares that must be sold as soon as possible.

So after the end of the trip in Russia, Zhou Jiexi became even more busy. He has a concept now, spend money, or exchange shares, and launch Facebook shares first. Now many media in the United States are optimistic about the future of Facebook.

This also gave Zhou Jiexi a lot more options. Just spending money to buy his stocks was no longer enough to satisfy his ideas.

Just as I thought at the beginning, exchange shares. This is also a good choice for those who intend to invest in Facebook for a long time, changing some of their holding portfolios.

Jessie Zhou and Charlotte went back to the United States together, and then separated in California. Her mother thought it was a good vacation and wanted to go to other places. Zhou Jiexi followed the plan in his mind and set off for Seattle, Washington State.

There is the future here, oh no, the well-known game production company, Villefort Software. Referred to as V agency, the boss is just fat.

This company has no intention of selling, but it can be discussed. Zhou Jiexi came back from Russia and went to Seattle, not to watch the game, but to discuss the acquisition.

According to the estimates of securities analysts, the market value of Villefort this year is about one billion. Jessie Zhou raised US$1.5 billion just to knock down the company.

In addition to winning the company's future, it also won the company's game engine, and with the production team, it laid the foundation for the future company to produce its own Chinese culture game.

G fat is indeed fat enough, Zhou Jiexi brought his own people and made an appointment with him. Right in their company, he wants to tell everyone in Villefort that he wants such a company and a team like theirs.

Compared with big companies buying them, after buying them yourself, it will definitely not change anything, and it will bring them a better future.

Valve Corporation

"Have you heard? Newell intends to negotiate with Jesse Zhou." The employee at work whispered to his colleague with some gossip.

"Hmm! I know, there have been news on the Internet recently. The Chinese-American first invested in World of Tanks in Belarus, and then released information, claiming that he wanted to make computer games, and then reported that he was coming to Seattle." The colleague said .

"How do you know so well?" Others asked curiously. "Don't you worry, after Villefort?"

"There is nothing to worry about. This is just a private acquisition. Like Newell, Jesse Zhou is also a game lover and a freelancer." A colleague said.

This sentence made several other people around him nod their heads in agreement.

I feel as if I don’t understand it. The white programmer is about to change the subject, and casually asks the colleague who is looking at the picture, “What are you looking at?”

"The new headquarters of Sky Games."

"The game company with the Chinese boss?" the colleague immediately asked.

Then he stretched his head over there, squeezed into a group of people, and looked at the so-called pictures.

"A friend of mine works at Sky Games, and this is the rendering from their company. The team over there is already dividing up the location of the company's new headquarters."

"In addition to the areas where the host is scheduled to be located, there are also places for maintenance personnel, necessary defense and security departments, etc. For other locations, the game production team can choose their own work points at will."

It's a very free model, very similar to Valve's model, but they pay more attention to the team. After all, it is a big company, and the management is more complicated, but the team has a high degree of freedom.

This also allowed Zhou Jiexi of the Villefort team to acquire the company without much objection. Individuals may still be worried, but most people hold a wait-and-see attitude.

At present, the subsidiary company of Sky Games has its own peripheral distribution channel. After some transformation and utilization, it can be used as a part of Valve's distribution channel.

"Is this their future working environment?"

"Um!"

"It looks really great." The man who was worried just now saw the man drinking beer in the desert ecosystem on the top floor in the rendering, and imagined that when he was tired, he was also drinking beer in it and basking in the sun. That was really great. up.

Desert, snow, tropical rainforest. There is also a working environment like a water park below, and the central area is still a forest park, which has various leisure and entertainment facilities.

Let people find inspiration and relax.

Free coffee and snacks are provided, as well as free spa services, artificial hot springs, and multiple artificial swimming pools. The office area is also like a large playground, which will provide many advanced mobile devices.

Including the magnetic levitation skateboard that is still in the magnetic levitation experiment, there is a specially designed magnetic floor in the office area to provide the hoverboard to run and move.

There is also a fast-moving platform like Mecha World, where the human body is fixed, and it can be swiped from the first floor to the third floor. There is also a sliding passage, which makes the Sky Games headquarters look like a mouse world, where you can crash in and slide to where you want, but you have to remember the direction of the slide.

There are many novelties in the weightless exercise room, wind tunnel and so on.

The man was a little stunned, swallowed his saliva and said with emotion: "Wow, this is not going to work, it is simply to enjoy a different world."

But there are also doubts, "Are they all real? It feels a bit too beautiful, too dreamy?"

"I don't know, but many things in it were proposed by their bosses themselves. Some of them were added by company personnel. In addition, those things don't really cost much, and the cost is more than 10 million U.S. dollars at most according to the budget. "

"According to their company's profits, these are not problems at all." The man looking at the computer said enviously.

"It is said that their new headquarters has a capacity of more than 8,000 people, and Tom Cat and Sky Games may not account for the entire amount. However, after the construction is completed next year, the number of Sky Games and Tom Cat is expected to expand to 5,000 to 6,000 people. gone."

Dozens of renderings on the computer were looked over and over by these people. Compared with my own place, the system may be a little stricter, but it will never be exaggerated. Everyone in the industry knows that the emerging sky company has a more free and relaxed atmosphere than Facebook.

While they were watching, Zhou Jiexi came with someone. Villefort's major shareholder and current boss, Newell greeted him.

There are several main people of the company behind them. The management team of this company is really loose. What Newell wants is this kind of relaxed atmosphere, so that employees can have more creative ideas.

However, the necessary arrangement of several management personnel is still needed, but they usually do not highlight themselves. Even if there are some employees whose work progress is slow, it doesn't matter much, as long as his team accepts him as a person.

Therefore, laziness is also a characteristic of this company. According to Fatty, everyone has laziness. Maybe when you are lazy, it is exactly when your creativity erupts.

On this point, Zhou Jiexi agrees. Even Villefort's entire company knew now that he agreed. Check out Sky Games' new headquarters. What a combination of the deepest sins of laziness and enjoyment!