Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

In the previous life, regarding Penguin’s major shareholder,

There was once a saying circulating on the Internet:

The major shareholder behind Penguin is the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, so Penguin is actually a state-owned company.

This statement is explained like this:

South Africa's MIH Group is Penguin's direct major shareholder, holding more than 30% of Penguin's shares;

Among them, the Standard Bank Group of South Africa is the major shareholder of the MIH Group of South Africa; and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China acquired 20% of the shares of the Standard Bank Group of South Africa in 2008.

In short, it is an equity link like this:

Penguin→MIH Group of South Africa→Standard Bank Group of South Africa→Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.

As soon as this statement was put forward, it immediately caused widespread dissemination on the Internet, and many people believed it to be true.

But the reality is rather disappointing. ICBC has no relationship at all with Penguin, and Penguin is not controlled by state-owned assets.

Before 2002, South Africa's MIH Group was indeed controlled by South Africa's Standard Bank Group.

However, after 2002, due to the South African Standard Bank Group's own reasons, it sold all the shares of the South African MIH Group and transferred them to the South African media giant Naspers.

Therefore, Penguin has become an indirectly controlled company of Naspers since 2002.

Although the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China holds 20% of the shares of Standard Bank Group of South Africa, it acquired it in 2008.

At this moment, South Africa's Standard Bank Group no longer holds shares in South Africa's MIH Group. How can we start talking about ICBC's holding of Penguin?

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Many people have fallen into the misunderstanding that ICBC is behind the penguins. In fact, it is just a beautiful expectation caused by patriotic sentiment.

In fact, our country's attitude towards foreign investors is relatively open. Alibaba's largest shareholder is Neon's SoftBank.

Baidu's largest shareholder is the American company DFJ.

Only important resources related to the national economy and people's livelihood cannot be sold, and other upper-level considerations are more tolerant.

For example, we support Musk’s establishment of factories in China, and support Kai-fu Lee, Masayoshi Son and others’ investments in China.

It can be said that Masayoshi Son and Kai-fu Lee have supported many large and well-known Internet companies in China. Without the participation of these foreign capitals, many companies with great potential may have died.

This actually reflects the decision-making wisdom of high-level officials and the inclusive spirit of major powers.

The entry of foreign capital is not entirely a bad thing. The most intuitive one is that it can provide a large number of jobs.

Secondly, for the local area, it can stimulate economic growth.

Then, if foreign capital can bring more advanced technology and management, it will promote the continuous enrichment and improvement of the domestic industrial chain, and also promote scientific and technological progress.

Foreign capital is not necessarily a scourge. The key lies in whether you can make good use of it.

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China actually attaches great importance to data security, but it does not go to the extent of completely suppressing foreign-funded enterprises. For example, if Apple has problems monitoring the data of Apple mobile phone users, then China will let them put all their data storage in inside China.

This was the Yunshang Guizhou that was later born.

The same is true for other companies. Any data related to national security and personal information will be stored in China, and independence and confidentiality must be guaranteed from a technical perspective. Then there will be no problem.

Therefore, even if Qingzhiyuan acquires Penguin, as long as the server and all related data are placed in China, the problem will not be too big.

This aspect will definitely be subject to review, and Qing Zhiyuan is not afraid of this.

Generally speaking, China is more reasonable than the United States, and has a broader thinking and vision. It is a higher-dimensional communication and governance method.

It further reflects the style and courage of a great country.

Some are loose and some are tight, some are put in and some are taken out. As long as you follow the rules, there will be no problem.

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Regarding the acquisition of Penguin, this is what Qing Zhiyuan thinks.

First of all, he was Chinese in his previous life, and now he is half Chinese. Although his nationality is Neon, in his heart he definitely still hopes that China will progress and develop rapidly.

As a businessman, it is true that Qing Zhiyuan wants to gain profits, but he can also become a trans-international business friend who is friendly to China.

Helping the development and progress of China's Internet industry and promoting the continuous improvement of science and technology are what Qingzhiyuan wants to do in the future.

By establishing a presence in China, following the trend of the times, opening up markets and making profits, this is what Qing Zhiyuan pursues.

They are not contradictory to each other, and can even be said to be a quite harmonious development path.

The reason why Qing Zhiyuan wants to obtain absolute controlling rights is that he wants to let Penguin advance and develop according to his own ideas at the source, and cooperate with Pokeni to combine the Internet and games.

On the one hand, it promotes the application of RTT and reserves users; on the other hand, it guides users to the future pokeni online model, which is the Dandelion platform created by P Agency.

After the Dandelion platform is built, RTT can become a pure chat tool alone in the future, and then be separated and returned to China.

Just like pokeni sells RTT business in the United States, in order to avoid suspicion, these industries related to data security and individual user privacy can be sold to Chinese state-owned enterprises.

To put it bluntly, Qing Zhiyuan is not interested in politics and does not want to touch it.

He just wants to build a network that connects the world and then bring games to the world.

In Qing Zhiyuan's ideal, the Penguin, or the gaming environment in China, he expects is not an environment where plagiarism is king, but a gaming atmosphere where people can be put first and from the player's perspective to create fun and spread culture.

It’s not bad money chasing good money, but real gold mining in the sand.

Moreover, although many people do not like games and think that games are a scourge and poison children, there is a very important fact:

The pearl of modern science and technology, the giant in the microscopic world——

Chips are indeed constantly iterating and improving driven by games.

Take graphics cards as an example. Without the continuous promotion of games, players’ growing demand for newer and better-quality games would not have been able to develop so fast.

If it is just used to meet the needs of daily life and meet the needs of physical industry calculations, it is actually enough. There is no need to upgrade and iterate the graphics card every year.

Subsequent smartphones would not need to develop more advanced chips if they were not to support games with higher quality, faster running speeds, and faster network speeds.

Therefore, when Qing Zhiyuan entered China, he was actually able to promote the development of China's chip industry to a certain extent through his own modest efforts. It cannot be said that it completely solved the stuck problem, but at least it could have a certain positive effect. of.

What's more, after Pokeni acquired Sega, its technological level and knowledge reserve in the semiconductor field have actually reached the world's top ranks. In terms of strength, Qingzhiyuan can completely copy and create related hardware factories in China, thereby promoting The development and progress of upstream and downstream ranks.

However, a big problem that needs to be faced is the [game console ban]

Just thinking about it gave me a huge headache, and Qing Zhiyuan actually had no intention of chewing this hard nut.

In short, Qing Zhiyuan wants to let nature take its course. From the perspective of a businessman and a half-Chinese person, the acquisition of Penguin is the first step. After this step is completed, it should be a win-win result.

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Taking into account that Penguins would burn more money in the future, Qing Zhiyuan decided to increase the acquisition capital from the original US$10 million to US$30 million after several rounds of negotiations and games with Xiao Ma.

And after the acquisition is successful, Pokeni will continue to provide blood transfusions to Penguin in the future. In short, it will allow Xiao Ma and the others to settle down and continue to manage the company. Qing Zhiyuan himself said that he will not change the functions and roles of several people in Penguin. We will rely on them even more in the future.

Maybe this acquisition amount seems a little small compared to the previous investment in Nvidia, but the specific amount is actually relative.

The level of money burning in the United States and the level of money burning in China will be greatly affected and fluctuated in different countries. One hundred million U.S. dollars may do limited things in the United States, but 30 million U.S. dollars can do a lot of things in China. .

Especially in the 1990s, China can be said to have provided a very high-quality business environment. The upstream and downstream industrial chains, including raw material prices, labor costs, service costs, etc., were far lower than those in developed countries.

Therefore, Qing Zhiyuan gave Penguin 30 million U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to what can be done in the United States with more than 300 million U.S. dollars, and is even greater than this potential.

And another point depends on the market environment. Various Internet companies in the United States have actually been around for a long time, and competition between them is also fierce.

However, China's Internet industry and the BAT giants are still babies. It can be said that there is still a big blue ocean in this field.

US$30 million may not make a splash in the big pool in the United States, but it can make huge waves in the big blue ocean of China's Internet.

In 1999, the U.S. dollar exchange rate for soft sister coins was about 1:8, which was equivalent to Qing Zhiyuan investing nearly 250 million soft girls coins in one go. This amount of money is actually quite considerable.

Qing Zhiyuan added carrots and sticks, and with great sincerity, he later expressed that he would respect Xiao Ma's team, which is equivalent to using the power of pokeni to quickly establish an advantage and generate cash for Penguin. After having enough potential energy, On the Penguin side, Qing Zhiyuan will let Xiao Ma and the others manage it independently.

Who wants to worry about their whole life instead of just lying around and making money?

After listening to Qing Zhiyuan's ideas, the members of Xiao Ma's team felt a lot more at ease. However, they did not give an answer on the spot, but hoped to give them some time to discuss before making a final decision.

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In fact, Xiao Ma's team thought about it for less than a week and agreed to the plan proposed by Qing Zhiyuan.

In fact, there is nothing to consider, the answer is obvious.

Rather than being sued by pokeni and forced to go bankrupt, it is better to accept pokeni's investment directly. Not only can it obtain genuine authorization, but it can also have the support of a large consortium behind it to inject more funds and provide technical support for Penguin.

Why not do this?

Any normal person would probably have to make the same choice.

Qing Zhiyuan will no longer be in charge of the next thing, leaving full responsibility to Iwata Satoru.

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After acquiring Penguin, Qing Zhiyuan's first-stage goal was achieved.

After finishing this matter, Qing Zhiyuan flew to the United States without stopping to continue his other acquisition plan——

Google.

At the end of last year, the company Google had just been established and had not officially opened for business. So far, Google has only opened one website, and the search engine has not yet been developed.

In the field of search engines, P-net can be said to have started early. As early as when P-net was first established, Qing Zhiyuan was already asking relevant departments to conduct research and development of search engines.

So now P-net's search engine can be said to be far ahead, ranking first in the world in terms of daily visits and searches, unparalleled.

However, this does not mean that Qingzhiyuan does not want Google. Their foundation and the strength of their R\u0026D personnel are still there, and since they already have corresponding business, it will be easier for Qingzhiyuan to acquire Google.

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In fact, just as Qing Zhiyuan expected, the two founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were a little surprised when they heard that Qing Zhiyuan would take a strong investment in shares, but they finally agreed. Come down.

Son Zhengyi’s acquisition routine has now been played very well by Qing Zhiyuan.

First, let me tell you that if I are not allowed to invest in the company, the money will be invested in competitors.

Then, many search engine patents have actually been registered by P-NET. Many of them cannot be circumvented no matter what, such as the web page classification system, tagging mechanism, and big data classification of web page information. The management and corresponding algorithm mechanisms are unique to P-net.

In the future, if Google wants to carve out a niche in search engines, it must deal with P-NET.

They can use their innovative technology patents in exchange, but these are high costs.

This is the first-mover advantage. After getting on the car, you occupy the track and formulate a series of industry rules. Latecomers can only hold their noses and follow you.

The corresponding technology authorization and capital injection can help Google establish an advantage in the short term. If you don't agree, you can invest in competitors...

In fact, there is not much choice left for Google's two founders.

Once you accept the principle of "join if you can't beat him", you will find that working with Qing Zhiyuan is actually quite comfortable.

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In the end, pokeni obtained 35% of Google's equity for US$50 million, plus a series of intellectual property licensing and technical assistance.

Qing Zhiyuan breathed a sigh of relief and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a proud smile.

Very good, now the layout has a big shape, it depends on how each step will be taken in the future.

Care for the two little seedlings of Penguin and Google to grow up.

Just thinking about it made Qing Zhiyuan tremble all over.

It's so scary. What a terrifying behemoth the pokeni will be in the future!

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Happy New Year!

I wish you all a prosperous new year and all your wishes come true

Today is my brother-in-law's wedding. I won't be back until very late, and I have to accompany you with drinks and so on. I definitely won't be able to write.

No updates tonight

thank you all

See you tomorrow (end of chapter)