Global Monopoly of Technology

The WRPO headquarters in Sioux City has about 300 to 400 regular employees who are busy with their respective jobs, and their careers are in full swing.

The WRPO e-sports event brand has been established, and the first competition will be held next year. It seems that there is still nearly a year of preparation, but in fact, the time is very tight.

As the saying goes, the beginning of everything is difficult, and most people have no experience in running e-sports competitions, or they are immature, and the initial stage is still quite confusing, because on the one hand, a large number of senior Korean e-sports practitioners have been recruited, and by the way, domestic e-sports practitioners have been recruited. Two pioneering companies engaged in the e-sports industry have been merged.

A company called "PLU Game Entertainment Media" was established in August 2005. It is a company whose main functions are to organize and promote various game events, disseminate and report hot and key news about domestic and foreign games, and select and package domestic game masters.

Another company called "NeoTV" was established in early 2006, and this year's 2007 WCG World Finals was broadcast live by the company, which has accumulated some experience in operating and broadcasting international large-scale e-sports events.

It also has a professional program production team, and has just begun to build promotion channels in China. It is a new generation entertainment media in the field of e-sports in the mainland.

When Bluestar Technology Group entered the market, when it launched an M\u0026A invitation to the two companies, without exception, he mentioned "Bluestar Dad" and happily sold himself.

As the saying goes, leaning against a big tree is a good way to enjoy the shade.

If such a large group enters the market, it will be life or death. If it does not agree to mergers and acquisitions, most of the talents in the e-sports industry that they have gathered will be poached.

Backed by Bluestar Technology Group, where is the future still worth thinking about?

Even if they don't get poached, they will take the initiative to switch jobs, and the company will be doomed. It would be better to package and sell them directly, and they will become employees of Bluestar Technology.

The merger of these two companies only cost less than ¥150 million.

When it was merged into the company, it was quickly integrated into the WRPO system of the e-sports business department of Bluestar Technology Group. After integrating resources, it moved forward with new goals, and was committed to building an e-sports commercialization, e-sports TV, e-sports venues, etc. A comprehensive service eSports operator.

Bluestar Video, the online streaming video business under Bluestar Technology, also provides resource linkage. After the updated version, a sub-section of the e-sports area has been opened, including the live broadcast window of the event and so on.

In the future, when the competition is held, the homepage promotion resources will be obtained.

The traffic here is not generally large, and even hanging for a day can bring huge traffic.

You know, the number of users of the Bluestar video website exceeds 200 million, making it the absolute king of domestic online streaming video websites.

No other video website can play it, because the high operating costs are not affordable for everyone, and the high bandwidth costs are prohibitive. Even large-scale Internet such as Tengxun and Baidu have not entered this field.

Without him, I can't afford it.

At least I don't have this financial resources to lose now, so I can only watch Blue Star Video continue to grow and develop.

Only Bluestar Technology has the financial resources to afford such huge losses. According to the financial report of Bluestar Technology, the domestic version of Bluestar Video spends hundreds of millions of dollars in broadband spending in a quarter. This is not even the international version of BluestarVideo. Losses are even more exaggerated.

Otherwise, the total revenue of Bluestar Technology in a quarter is 7 billion US dollars, and the net profit is only about 1.8 billion US dollars, that is, the expenditure is too large.

The profit margin of the blue space business segment is as high as 46%, which is achieved by the strong monetization ability of the big brother. Although other business segments have generated income, most of them cannot make ends meet.

The online video business is definitely the gold-eating monster that Bluestar Technology Group is second only to cloud computing services.

For those who are engaged in the e-sports industry, Bluestar Technology Group's series of resource inclinations, although insignificant to the group company, are simply unthinkable for practitioners in the e-sports industry.

However, for the people who originally worked in "PLU" and "NeoTV", the future is brighter and the stage is broader, but the pressure is also great.

The first WRPO World Finals in October next year is the top priority, and the operation department is not at all easy now, for fear of screwing up, it will be dead.

Bluestar Technology Group has just established the e-sports business department, and the restructuring and adjustment of personnel of all parties is almost the restructuring and adjustment of the entire e-sports industry. The confusion in the early stage is self-evident.

But after chaos, there must be great governance.

For Wang Qiwei, the secretary general in charge of the e-sports section, he wanted to die. He would directly lead the entire organizing committee to carry out specific work, media, event planning, personnel, logistics, investment promotion, etc.

The e-sports division of Bluestar Technology Group is called the WRPO Division. The top management is the organizing committee, but the organizing committee itself is not a legal entity and has no additional registration. In name, it is directly under the vertical management of Bluestar Technology. The official seal of science and technology is authorized by the President's Office. If a legal official seal is to be engraved in the name of the organizing committee, approval from the relevant department is required.

The structure of WRPO is that the top leader is the director of the Organizing Committee, but he is not an individual. Access to direct management of WRPO.

But Zhang Bowen basically won't have time to take care of it. He takes care of a multinational group with tens of thousands of employees, and he needs to take care of the big things.

The ultimate boss Luo Sheng is even more impossible.

Unless he suddenly remembered something, now that he has completed the overall arrangement of e-sports, he basically doesn’t ask about it. If he doesn’t take the initiative to pay attention, only in the regular meeting and the year-end summary meeting. will passively hear.

Therefore, the normal situation is that the assistant to the president's office of the corporate development department will be in charge of the general affairs of this area.

Under the small framework of the WRPO Organizing Committee, the Director of the Organizing Committee is a leader who does not do specific work, equivalent to the chairman of the board.

It is the secretary-general who is really doing the work and the current Wang Qiwei, who is equivalent to the general manager of the WRPO business department. The following is the establishment of the secretariat, media, planning, logistics, investment and other departments. The manager is the department. director.

How much pressure does Wang Qiwei have now?

The Office of the President of the Enterprise Development Department gave him a sentence, before the end of this year, the chaos of personnel and management caused by mergers and acquisitions should be ended, and the work situation should be reported at the end of the year.

With a word from the leader, the subordinates run and break their legs.

A simple sentence, but how difficult is it to accomplish this task?

"Secretary-General Wang, the big boss Luo is here."

"What? Why is he suddenly free to come here?" Wang Qiwei was subconsciously shocked when he heard the assistant come in and report, and quickly walked out of the office to greet him.

Luo Sheng is indeed free recently, and he has clearly arranged a series of layouts for Bluestar Technology Group and Cote d'Azur. Zhang Bowen and the others are still busy, but he is more relaxed.

As the founder of the company, after the early stage, especially the completion of the [Azure] planning stage, Luo Sheng is not as hardworking as before.

Except for scientific research, other aspects of work are not specific work, and ordered to arrange it for the executive layer to deal with.

Even scientific research will not always be on the front line. After all, both companies are expanding in size and have many projects. Luo Sheng can't be busy even if he has 48 hours a day.

At this moment, the office hall of WRPO is quite lively. The office here is a classic cubicle. Most of the members sitting in each cubicle are not working now, but take out their mobile phones to take pictures.

And the young man surrounded by everyone here is Luo Sheng. Most of the e-sports practitioners working here are quite young, basically the same age as Luo Sheng.

However, the aura is completely different from one level, there is no doubt about that.

At this moment, many young employees have turned into Luo Sheng's super fans and asked for a group photo. Luo Sheng readily agreed, but several supervisors here were worried, but they were not good at going forward and saying anything.

Most of the young employees didn't think much about it, and didn't know that when Luo Sheng left, he would be sprayed with blood by his immediate boss.

When Wang Qiwei came here, he quickly locked Luo Sheng. Seeing this situation, his face turned dark, but he quickly put away this emotion and walked up to meet him in small steps: "Mr. Luo, I'm very sorry for not knowing about you. Will come, without any preparations to receive you."

"The WRPO business department is well arranged, and the progress is very fast." Luo Sheng said casually with a smile, and then took a group photo with a young employee with a smile.

"Mr. Luo, please come here." Wang Qiwei hurriedly said.

Luo Sheng nodded, secretly saying that you are finally here.

Immediately, Wang Qiwei and Wang Qiwei left the office hall and came to the other party's office.

As soon as he left, the supervisor here roared: "You guys, and you, with you. What did you just say? Who is Luo always? How busy is the work? What is the occasion? You are here to work. What are you doing?"

The supervisor who was reprimanding also turned dark immediately, because he had just noticed Wang Qiwei's face turning dark, and he knew that when Luo Sheng left here, he would probably be called into the office by his immediate boss and scolded bloody. It's all light.

After Luo Sheng entered an office, he naturally came to sit at the desk where Wang Qiwei was able to sit.

Wang Qiwei, on the other hand, stood outside and faced him rather cautiously. Although he was much older than Luo Sheng in age, he was also very nervous now.

"Can you end the messy personnel situation of the WRPO division before the end of the year? If you bring a team like this to next year's competition, you will be laughed at by the international media. I can't afford to lose this person." Luo Sheng leaned back. He said softly on the seat.

Wang Qiwei's heart skipped a beat when he heard it. Luo Sheng's expectations were flat, but Secretary-General Wang had already heard that he was very dissatisfied with the current situation of WRPO.

"Mr. Luo, I promise to complete all personnel reorganization before the end of the year, get rid of the dross and take the essence, to ensure that next year's competition can be successfully held as scheduled." Wang Qiwei vowed to issue a military order, such a time must be Make a military order, or you may be dismissed from get out of class.

"I know it's not easy for you to take on this job. The people in the WRPO business department are mainly from two merger and acquisition companies. The domestic e-sports circle is already chaotic, the industry is not standardized, and the fish and dragons are mixed. It’s very difficult to reshape an industry because of the habit of being a gangster, things need to be handled by people, but people don’t work, and if the personnel problems are not solved, the things that follow will definitely not be able to be done.”

Wang Qiwei nodded again and again: "That's what Mr. Luo taught."

Luo Sheng smiled lightly, shook his head and said, "Education can't be talked about, to put it bluntly, the problem of personnel is only a problem, we need to clean up a few rat shits in the team, and some people with past records in the gray area are all dealt with, WRPO There is no need for such people to 'open the way' or 'escort' to hold a competition, and it is impossible for e-sports to be recognized by the mainstream unless these dross is removed."

Wang Qiwei nodded again and again.

The domestic e-sports circle in this era is indeed very mixed, because there is no strong pusher, making this field in a state of progress in a barbaric disorder for a long time.

E-sports and online games are very vague, and games are closely related to Internet cafes, and most entertainment venues such as Internet cafes are actually non-standard.

It is often the place where young people without legitimate careers like to look forward to it for a long time. Obviously, if you are young and energetic and have nothing to do, can you not make trouble?

This is going to happen.

These factors mesh with each other, and it is literally a miniature "cyberpunk" circle in reality.

In addition, the impact of the "Blue Pole Beam" incident in the past few years can be described as worse. Under this harsh environment, e-sports can be on the table, and it is a ghost to be recognized by the mainstream.

Even if Luo Sheng comes in to support, it is not an easy task, and it will take time to regulate the entire industry.

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