January 26th, Wednesday …
Dream Realization Ventures …
Pei Qian sipped his tea and listened to He Desheng's report, his mind wandering.
Ruan Guangjian had left, and the last exam of the exam week was over. It should have been a double blessing, but Pei Qian felt a little empty.
It was a week before Chinese New Year. Pei Qian had to be busy with the company while his classmates had all gone home.
What a bitter life!
He wanted to leave this world, oh no, leave it be. However, he had no choice. Even if he did not look for work, it would come to him.
Dream Realization Ventures had two jobs. One was IOI's local server, and the other was' Top Student, Come Quick 'app.
At the moment, IOI's testing in Europe and America was going well. Logically speaking, it was about time to start preparing for the local server.
At this stage, many domestic games companies had already noticed IOI's momentum during the testing period in Europe and America. They wanted to get the agency rights for the local server as soon as possible.
However, when they asked Finger Games, they found out that the agency rights for the local server had already been taken by someone else …
Thus, these people could only pin their hopes on Dream Realization Ventures to resell the agency rights for IOI's local server.
Since many companies were interested, the price tag was naturally getting higher and higher.
"Boss Pei, are we … selling it?" He Desheng ended his long report and ended with a soul-stirring question.
Pei Qian was silent for a moment. "Tell me again, what's the highest price now?"
He Desheng: "Thirty-five million yuan."
Pei Qian put down his teacup silently, wanting to look up at the sky and sigh.
Thirty-five million yuan!
The agency rights for the local server in Dream Realization Ventures' hands were given to him when he bought Finger Games' shares previously …
He only spent twenty million yuan to buy more than twenty percent of Finger Games' shares. Now, he still had those shares. Just selling the agency rights for the local server would earn him thirty-five million yuan.
Even robbing money would not be that fast.
Pei Qian immediately shook his head. "Reject them all, not selling!"
Pei Qian knew very well that once he took this money, he could forget about incurring losses this cycle!
Settlement was in two months. What should he do in these two months to spend more than thirty million yuan and ensure that the project would go live? It was too risky!
Therefore, he definitely could not sell it!
He Desheng expressed his agreement. "Yes, that's what I think too! 35 million is too little. I can definitely sell it for a higher price if I keep it for a while longer! "
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He Desheng's face was brimming with joy as he continued. "Boss Pei, I've done my homework as well. Now, a few big domestic companies are acting as agents for overseas games. The agency fees are almost astronomical!
"The agency fee for the previous version of Fantasy World was 30 million dollars, almost 200 million!"
"From the looks of it, IOI's future popularity might reach the level of Fantasy World. You want to buy it from us for 35 million yuan? No way! "
"Of course, this is also because IOI has just started testing and Finger Games is not very famous."
"All in all, we don't have to be anxious now. As long as IOI continues to gain popularity overseas, the agency fees will definitely increase!"
"…"
We're not thinking about the same thing at all!
What Pei Qian was thinking was that if he sold it now, the settlement for this cycle would go down the drain. He would have nowhere to spend the 35 million yuan. That was why he could not sell it.
What He Desheng was thinking was that 35 million was obviously too low, and he should continue to raise the price!
After hearing He Desheng's words, Pei Qian felt like selling out.
However, on further thought, he still could not sell it.
In the short term, selling it would affect the settlement. In the long term, if IOI could really reach billions, Pei Qian might as well lie down and earn money.
After thinking for a moment, Pei Qian said, "What I mean is that not only can we not sell it, but we have to specially set up a company to operate IOI's local server!"
He Desheng was stunned and immediately nodded. "That's good too!"
"That way, we can hold this cash cow in our hands and keep earning money!"
Pei Qian, "…"
Think whatever you want. I don't want to say anything else. I'm tired!
Pei Qian decided to set up his own company to operate IOI's local server for two main reasons.
On one hand, he could not not sell or operate it since he had already obtained the agency rights for the local server. That would definitely arouse suspicion.
On the other hand, he could spend more money if he operated it himself!
As a real-time battle game, IOI and GOG had the highest server requirements among all the games in Tengda. They would definitely have to spend a huge sum of money on the server.
At the same time, IOI's initial publicity would definitely require a lot of money.
That way, he could at least ensure that they would incur losses for this cycle.
As for the future …
If IOI really became a cash cow and could not afford to incur losses, Pei Qian could consider becoming a salted fish. He could rely on the 1000: 1 profit conversion ratio to earn some pocket money in the future.
Pei Qian did not want to dwell too much on IOI's problems. In any case, he definitely could not sell it now. He could only grit his teeth and do it step by step.
"All in all, there's no need to rush this matter. We'll talk about it after the New Year.
"What about 'Top Student, Come Quick'?"
"The three million yuan from before should be almost spent, right?" Pei Qian asked casually.
During this period, 'Top Student, Come Quick' had been burning money non-stop. Be it through advertising or subsidies, there were holes everywhere.
Although it was not as terrifying as the bicycle sharing program, the initial capital was only three million yuan. It would be gone in a short while.
He Desheng nodded. "Soon, there's less than a million yuan left in the accounts.
"However, don't worry, Boss Pei. Recently, a few investment companies have shown great interest in 'Top Student, Come Quick' and want to invest more in it!"
Pei Qian had just brought the teacup to his mouth when he stopped. "… Huh?"
You want to invest in such an unreliable project? Is your brain damaged?
The 'Top Student, Come Quick' app had been revamped.
Previously, Pei Qian had discovered that the app had a negative trend of becoming a dating platform. He had decisively taken measures and made major changes to some functions.
Now, there was no gender or photo in all the user options on the platform. There was only the name and the default profile picture.
When looking at the homepage of a top student, one could only see the good reviews and the system's default labels. For example: good teaching attitude, patient, easy to understand, and so on.
The homepage of the flunkies was similar. They also had the good reviews and the system's default labels. For example: attentive, good learning attitude, polite, and so on.
According to the current standard process, the flunkies would fill in their requirements on the app, including the subject they wanted to be tutored, the time, and the appointed location. The top student would accept the task on his own. He would have to use the chat function attached to the app throughout the entire process. He would not be able to clearly know the gender and appearance of the other party.
Of course, there would definitely be people who would try to ask the gender of the other party before meeting. In response to this situation, the app had specially designed a 'one-click complaint' function. Once clicked, both parties' chat records would automatically be submitted for review and the tutoring session would be terminated.
Once an account was verified to have probed the gender or appearance of the other party, the account would immediately be punished. The lightest punishment would be the deduction of credit points. The most severe punishment would be the permanent suspension of the ID card and mobile phone number.
The number of active users plummeted as soon as the new version of the app was updated!
That was because the app had a large number of users with impure motives. They had only treated it as a platform to meet the opposite sex.
It was just like how many drivers would deliberately pick beautiful girls to accept orders on taxi-hailing apps and discuss them in private. There was no lack of such people in the 'Top Student, Come Quick' app.
What's more, face-to-face tutoring was easy to create opportunities for such encounters. If left unchecked, it would probably be more serious than a taxi-hailing app.
The new version completely extinguished the delusions of this group of people.
Therefore, it was normal for the popularity of the app to plummet.
Pei Qian had originally thought that the new version would definitely deal a heavy blow to the 'Top Student, Come Quick' project. Then, he would hurry up and burn all the millions of yuan. Everything would be fine.
He had never thought that there would be a few investment companies chasing after the project.
Pei Qian fell into deep thought.
At first, he had intended to burn all the three million yuan as soon as possible so that he could declare the project a failure and let it die naturally.
In the end, before he could finish spending the money, someone else rushed to give him more money. What should he do?!
Pei Qian wanted to reject them, but he had no reason to do so!
Boss Li's Fu Hui Investments had already invested one million yuan. The other investment companies wanted to invest but did not want that many shares. The 'Top Student, Come Quick' project was currently short of money.
What reason could he use to reject them?
Pei Qian thought for a moment and got an idea.
Wouldn't it be fine if he told these companies about the unreliability of the project and let them back off?
At that thought, Pei Qian said to He Desheng, "Call these investment companies immediately and clarify two things.
"First, ask them clearly why they are investing in the 'Top Student, Come Quick' project.
"Second, clarify all the problems that 'Top Student, Come Quick' is currently facing and the risks of this project in advance!"
The purpose of the first question was very simple. He wanted to ask these people which part of the 'Top Student, Come Quick' project was reliable. Can't I change it?
He Desheng was confused.
What did Boss Pei mean?
Why did these investment companies invest in the 'Top Student, Come Quick' project? They must think that this project is reliable!
That should be the question that these investment companies should consider. They are the ones investing, and we are the ones taking the money!
He Desheng thought hard. Could it be that Boss Pei wants me to use this method to reverse engineer the success of this project? To deepen my understanding of the way of investment?
"Yes, that is the only reasonable explanation.
"But why did Boss Pei tell all the investors about the risks of this project?"
Other projects would try their best to deceive investment companies. They would only report the good news and not the bad so that they would invest more money.
If he revealed all his cards, would people still invest in him?
He Desheng did not understand, but he did not dare to ask more when he saw Boss Pei's unquestionable gaze. He only called these investment companies one by one.
Pei Qian listened quietly by the side.
He Desheng was very obedient and followed Pei Qian's instructions. He first asked the other party about their views on the 'Top Student, Come Quick' project and then talked at length about the current problems the project was facing.
For example, the current active users could not support the market demand, the popularity and daily activity of the app had plummeted after the update, and the current functions were still relatively simple.
As expected, he dissuaded two companies!
These investment companies would more or less do some research before investing. However, no matter how much research they did, they would not be able to obtain some internal data.
Some investment companies were simply eyeing the education industry as a promising industry. They saw that this company had the backing of Tengda and Fu Hui Investments and felt that this was a more reliable project. That was why they considered investing in it.
But now, He Desheng had clearly explained the real situation of the project in detail, especially emphasizing the huge risks faced by this project, and the possibility of losing everything.
Thus, some investment companies immediately retreated.
He made three calls in a row, and the enthusiasm of the three investment companies was completely extinguished. They went from being ready to invest at the beginning to a wait-and-see state.
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