"I'm short on money. If I don't have any more money, I won't be able to pay my salary!" Mike Mowaimi was about to cry when he heard Boss Jia's words.
Only the heavens knew how pitiful Mike Mowaimi and Alan Adehan were. They were so poor that they had to sleep under bridges. Every night, they couldn't sleep at all. The only thing left was to borrow money from loan sharks.
That was why Mike Mowaimi was trying his best to speed up the development of Warcraft 1. He wanted to get Warcraft 1 on the market as soon as possible to recoup his investment.
That was exactly what Mike Mowaimi did in history. Warcraft 1 went on the market in January. Although it had good sales and saved Mike Mowaimi from bankruptcy, the quality of Warcraft 1 was a little rough. This was Mike Mowaimi's regret in life because he couldn't fix the Warcraft 1 of the past.
"That's why I'm here!" Boss Jia smiled, "I'm here to invest in you. Are you willing?"
"Invest in us!" Mike Mo Huaimi and Alan Adhan looked at each other and suddenly showed an extremely excited expression. They never dreamed that they would have a windfall. Now, someone was willing to invest in their company. They thought that they would go bankrupt in the end and have to sell their ancestral house to pay off their debts.
"Mr Jia, how do you plan to invest in us?" Mike Mowaimi asked excitedly.
"I'll give you three proposals!" Jia Yapeng took out three prepared contracts from his backpack and said, "This is the first contract. I'll buy your shares. As long as the shares are no more than 50%, I'm willing to pay 50,000 USD for every 1% of the shares! You can decide how much you want to sell it for! "
"50,000 USD!!!" Mike Mowaimi and Alan Adehan's eyes almost popped out of their sockets. They didn't even dream that their company could be sold for 50,000 USD for every 1% of the shares!
If they sold 50% of the shares, that would be 2.5 million USD. It was more than all the money and profits the company had invested since its inception. It was a profitable deal!
"We agree, we have no objections!" Mike Mowaimi pulled Alan Adehan and immediately agreed.
"Don't worry, there's still the second condition!" Boss Jia smiled and said, "If you are willing to sell more than 50% of your shares, then I can buy it at the price of 80,000 USD for every 1% of your shares!"
"80,000 USD!!" Mike Morwaimi and Alan Adehan were so happy that they almost fainted. They had never seen so much money in their lives.
"What about the last plan?" Mike Mowaimi asked impatiently.
"Lastly, I can offer 10 million USD to acquire your company. Also, I can invest another 10 million USD in your company to develop a new game for you. However, there is one condition! "
"What conditions?" Mike Mowaimi asked subconsciously.
"The two of you have to sign a contract with the company for more than 20 years. I will give you 10% of the company's annual profit as your annual salary. However, if you are forced to resign within 20 years, you have to return all the money to me!" Boss Jia said calmly.
"Why is there such a condition?" Mike Mowaimi was very confused when he heard Boss Jia's condition.
It was not that Jia Yapeng's condition was very harsh. On the contrary, it was an excellent condition. After all, after buying the company, most people would immediately fire the founding members. However, Jia Yapeng wanted to sign a 20-year contract with them and give them 10% of the company's profits as a bonus every year. What was Jia Yapeng after?
"It's very simple. I am greedy for your talents!" Boss Jia laughed and said, "You don't really think that your company is worth 10 million dollars, do you?"
"No, the actual price of this company is probably not even 800,000 USD. No one would be willing to buy it because this company has nothing valuable except for the copyright of two games!"
"But that is in the eyes of ordinary people. In my eyes, the two of you are the most valuable. Each of you is worth 5 million USD!" Jia Yapeng said passionately, "I believe that the two of you will be able to create games that will attract the attention of the world in the future. In the future, your names will become the most dazzling stars in the gaming industry. Therefore, I want to keep the two of you and let the two of you work for me to create the best games for the world!"
"Mr. Jia!" Mike Mowaimi and Alan Adehan were completely excited. They had never heard anyone appreciate them so much in their lives. For a moment, they felt like they would die for their bosom friends.
"Don't worry, the two of you. Although I have taken away 100% of the company's shares, I will not have specific control over the company. I will only send the finance staff to manage the company's finances. In addition, in the future, I may take over the distribution of the company's channels. However, the company's core game production department will be firmly in the hands of the two of you!"
"You can go ahead and create the games that you want to create. Let's talk about the grand games in your minds that belong to another world. I will give you 100% autonomy. You can go ahead and create your own brilliant future!" Boss Jia felt that sometimes, he could really apply for a successful master.
After this imposing speech, Mike Mowaimi and Alan Adehan's eyes were red. It was as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
The final result was needless to say. Mike Mowaimi immediately called the third founder of the company. Although this founder had left the game industry, he firmly held 30% of the company's shares in his hands and couldn't operate without him.
When he learned that his shares could be sold for a full three million USD, the other founder naturally had no intention of refusing. So that afternoon, the three founders gathered in the company and signed an acquisition contract with Jia Yapeng in front of all the programmers. 100% of the company's shares were in Boss Jia's pocket. The two geniuses, Mike Mowaimi and Alan Adehan, were also firmly tied to the Daqian war chariot by Boss Jia.
In history, all of Blizzard's huge projects, except for the Diablo series, were basically completed under the leadership of these two geniuses, such as the Warcraft series, StarCraft series, Overwatch, and Hearthstone series.
The reason why they only signed a 20-year contract was that after 2013, the quality of Blizzard began to plummet, and they basically entered the ranks of the previous games.
Although there were two more games, Hearthstone and Overwatch, but to be honest, these two games didn't reach the ability to break through an era like Warcraft and StarCraft.
Of course, the most important reason for this was Vidiwang's unscrupulous behavior after acquiring Blizzard. He had forced the northern Blizzard team to leave. However, the two founders had gradually lost their fighting spirit. This was also related to Vidiwang.
So Boss Jia planned to only sign a 20-year contract. If it didn't work out, they could part on good terms.
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