My Animation Era

Wanbao is really out of money?

In order to verify this statement, Gu Miao didn't bother to celebrate Coco's birthday and quickly called Lao Zhang and Ma Kui to understand the situation.

"It does happen..."

As the new vice president, Lao Zhang has taken over Jiang Keke's position. He is mainly responsible for the group's personnel and administrative management, and also has certain jurisdiction over finance.

From his description, Gu Miao finally understood what happened.

It turns out that it was in September this year.

When Gu Miao started her business, several loans she had obtained from banks had expired one after another.

This is not a big head.

The bulk of it was the final payment that Gu Miao had to make as soon as possible when he bought the piece of land at [Wanbao·Pleasant Goat Paradise] from Mr. Xiong.

"no……"

Gu Miao hesitated and said, "I just checked the accounts two days ago. Don't we still have hundreds of millions of working capital in our accounts?"

"It's almost gone!"

"Some time ago, you allocated a sum of money to Puppet Studio, another sum to Wolfsburg Studio, and then another sum to Dimension Studio."

"Just now, you allocated another sum of money to Huang Kun and Xiao Guo..."

Ma Kui clasped his fingers and settled the accounts for Gu Miao: "Our family is very rich, but no matter how rich it is, we can't afford such squandering!"

I see.

Gu Miao suddenly realized that there were too many new works/projects launched during this period, which squeezed out most of the company's cash flow.

Coupled with the expiration of the bank loan, the payment of the final payment for the land by Mr. Xiong, maintaining the normal operation of the company, etc., Ma Kuicai asked Xiao Guo and Huang Kun to ask for less money.

"But it's not right!"

Gu Miao murmured to herself: "Didn't we launch several hit animations in the first half of this year?"

“Like ‘Pokémon,’ ‘Sailor Moon 2,’ ‘A Happy Year of the Sheep,’ etc., don’t they make any money?”

"Earn it!"

Ma Kui spread his hands and said: "But the money has not been returned yet! Have you forgotten that it takes time to get the money back, and it is usually quarterly or even half a year."

That's bad!

When he said this, Gu Miao immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.

As Magui said, it takes time to get the money back. It doesn’t mean that when you make money, the money will appear in your account immediately. You will have to wait for a long time to collect the money.

But now that the loan has expired, the company has launched multiple animation projects, and there is no money on the books.

"Really no money?"

"Gone!"

Lao Zhang shook his head and said: "The solution now is to either negotiate with the bank and give us a few days' delay, or to urge our partners to get our money back as soon as possible."

"Hurry!"

"Whoever is holding back our money should quickly ask them to give it to us. As for the bank, I will go and negotiate with them. It won't be so urgent."

Gu Miao pondered: "But water from afar cannot quench our thirst for nearness. At this time, what we need more is cash, sufficient cash."

"That's right!"

Ma Kui and Lao Zhang nodded in unison.

As long as you have cash, all problems can be solved. But the question now is, where can we get "hundreds of millions" of cash in the short term?

Gu Miao thought about finding someone to "borrow" it.

With a close friend like Mr. Xiong and a life-long friendship, it shouldn't be a big problem to ask him to borrow some money for emergencies at critical moments.

But Gu Miao doesn't want to borrow money for the time being.

If you say this once, it is a favor! Even if you charge interest to others, it is still a favor! As we all know, debts of gratitude are the hardest to repay.

As a last resort, Gu Miao didn't want to owe others a favor for no reason.

The most important thing is...

He has already thought of an idea on how to generate a cash flow in the short term to alleviate the financial crisis facing the company.

…

Jiangchuan, Wanbao Toy Factory.

The toy factory formerly known as "Wanzhibao" is located in an industrial park on the outskirts. Since being acquired and renamed "Wanbao Toys", it has become one of Wanbao's most stable sources of cash flow.

The reason why it is "one" is because in addition to peripheral derivatives business, Wanbao is also very profitable in "IP licensing".

certainly!

No matter how much money is made from IP licensing, the influence will definitely be incomparable to that of "peripheral derivatives business".

After all, how many people do IP operations have?

On the other hand, Wanbao Toys has just one factory with thousands of employees. In terms of social influence, they are simply not on the same level.

But having said that...

As the president of Wanbao, Gu Miao actually rarely visits the toy company. Usually Lao He goes to the downtown headquarters and reports to him.

Then why is he here today?

And if you don't come early or late, you just come when the employees are off work and everyone is getting ready to go home for dinner?

This surprised Lao He.

He had just come out of the workshop and was about to drive home. Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the parking lot, his secretary came to tell him: Mr. Gu was on the way and wanted to discuss something important with him!

Okay!

Although he didn't know what major matter Mr. Gu wanted to discuss with him, Lao He still called his wife and told her that he might not be able to go back tonight.

"Mr. Gu, welcome!"

The moment he hung up the phone, Lao He saw Mr. Gu and quickly stepped forward to shake hands and greet him.

"Okay, stop being polite."

Gu Miao glanced at the factory area and found that the workers had already left work one after another. She quickly asked: "Have all the masters in the factory gotten off work?"

"There are a few more..."

"Then invite them over quickly. I have something here. Let them see if they can make it." Gu Miao took out a blueprint prepared in advance and handed it to Lao He and said.

Lao He glanced at it and saw a black line on his head.

Judging from his professional vision, this drawing was probably drawn by Mr. Gu himself. After all, only an outsider could draw such a rough and irregular design drawing.

However, this is not the point.

When he invited all the masters in the factory who had not yet had time to get off work to the conference room, everyone started a heated discussion around Mr. Gu's drawing.

"Electronic Pokémon?"

"That's right!"

Gu Miao pointed to the drawing and said: "I hope this machine can raise electronic Pokémon pets and have functions such as training, feeding, and interaction."

"This is simple."

Lao He nodded. An "electronic pet" program like this is easy to create and is not very difficult.

But Gu Miao's subsequent words made everyone frown.

"I hope this machine can interact with other machines through infrared, Bluetooth or WIFI modules, which is PVP mode!"

Ah this? !

Compared with previous electronic pets, this "linked PVP" module is more difficult to get.

However, no matter how difficult it is, there is a limit. As long as you are willing to work hard, you can achieve this function. When thinking about the current popularity of the animated "Pokémon", everyone's eyes lit up.

Digital Pokémon?

With a small machine, you can raise a "Pokémon" of your own, train it, play with it to increase intimacy, and then start a PVP duel with other players?

It seems... quite interesting!

Tamagotchi, everyone has seen it, right?