Top of the big era

New year and new atmosphere.

Zhou Buqi's focus is on the Internet industry. Amid the chaos of the economic crisis, many companies have taken a series of measures, hoping to make a big move at the bottom.

Shanda wanted to split its game business and list it separately. After acquiring Hurray and Kuliu, it integrated and reorganized and established a new company, Shengshi Pictures. Through a series of capital operations, it wanted to build an entertainment empire.

NetEase, on the other hand, is speculating on the concept and has made a grand statement to the capital market, saying that NetEase is going to follow the "Internet + Agriculture" route, investing tens of millions of yuan in scientific and technological pig farming, and live broadcasting the pig farming process online. The reaction of the stock price is very positive, and it seems to be very optimistic about this high-end pork industry.

Sohu also made big news. On January 2nd, the good news was officially announced!

After the agency contract of "World of Warcraft" is terminated with The9 in April this year, it will be represented by Changyou, a subsidiary of Sohu. This news was quickly confirmed by Blizzard officials.

In this business, Zhou Buqi contributed a lot.

In the previous life, The9 had a stalemate with Blizzard, then had a fight with NetEase, and there was even news that it would delete the data of 5 million game players. The various ups and downs that the game has gone through, including stopping, starting, and then stopping the server, made everyone look bad. It also caused NetEase, the agent of "World of Warcraft", to suffer huge losses, resulting in slow updates and late new copies. Still unable to come online.

Zhou Buqi personally came forward to solve the problem.

Zhu Jun is a very proud boss, easy to talk and discuss, and can achieve anything. He cannot give humiliating plans like NetEase. The relationship between Ninetowns and Blizzard has been very tense in the past two years, and it is impossible to renew the contract. As long as the communication is good, the change of agency will not cause too much disputes.

It's solved now.

However, the biggest sensation in the industry is Sina.

The current CEO of Sina is Mr. Cao. He is a professional manager. In the past few years, he has led the management team to do a good job in business. When he first took office, Sina almost disappeared and was forcibly annexed by Shanda.

Over the past few years, the business has stabilized, and it has become the number one portal in the country in the field of current affairs news.

With so much credit, how can you do it with less shares?

At his level, just offering a high salary is not enough. He wants to become the largest shareholder and the real owner of Sina. You know, Sina has a criminal record and once kicked off its founders. If he hadn't made a plan early, he might have ended up killing the donkey.

Then, he contacted the core management and issued an ultimatum to the board of directors, intending to launch an MBO acquisition of the company, that is, a management buyout.

Either the management team buys the company and becomes the actual controlling party of Sina; or they resign collectively and let Sina do whatever they want!

In fact, it is a threat to several important shareholders of the board of directors.

Either capital concessions or management exits.

pick one of two!

You know, it's an economic crisis now, and Sina's stock price is seriously undervalued.

Buying stocks at the current stock price is buying the bottom.

The capital will suffer a big loss.

If they are ordinary people, they may be impulsive. Do you think a group of slaves I hired dare to jump up and resist their master? What a shame! It must be destroyed! Take it! If they break up, the worst they can do is die together!

Capital will not do this. Dignity is pure nonsense, and interests are the greatest dignity. No one cares about a noble poor man, but everyone will pursue a despicable rich man. The calmest solution is to maximize benefits under any circumstances.

If Mr. Cao and the core management team resign en masse, the consequences will be disastrous. Sina is paralyzed internally, and competitors such as Sohu, NetEase, and Toutiao are putting pressure on Sina. Sina is bound to die.

Compromise to management and you may lose 50%. If you don’t compromise, you may lose 100%. Of course, if you choose one of the two, choose the former. It doesn't matter whether you are dignified or not.

This matter was inside information from Ziweixing's administrative office, and Zhou Buqi knew it all too well. This kind of operation is very complicated. It takes half a year to complete the operation, which is considered fast, but it can definitely be achieved.

Similar things are not limited to Sina, Alibaba's old horse is also doing it. He is communicating with SoftBank and Yahoo, and is also threatening and intimidating him, hoping to redeem part of the equity from them. In fact, it is to take advantage of the capital's panic stage during the economic crisis to maximize its own interests.

It’s a battle between management and controlling parties.

Similar things happen to Haier, Lenovo, Gree, TCL, Changhong and other companies, which is more troublesome. Sina and Alibaba are fighting against foreign capital, and this group of people is fighting against state-owned capital. Now that they have control, there will be a lot of trouble in the future.

However, Zhou Buqi didn't pay much attention to these matters, which were industry trends that had nothing to do with Ziweixing.

But there is one thing that we have to pay attention to.

This was a call from He Yang from the capital.

He Yang's voice showed the helplessness that could not be concealed, "The matter of domestic software has a follow-up result."

"It has been expected for a long time. It is nothing more than Microsoft Office and Kingsoft WPS occupying the market."

To a certain extent, Zhou Buqi has done WPS a big favor this time.

WPS is powerful enough to serve some small and medium-sized enterprises and institutions. The performance is very stable and the compatibility is excellent. In the past half year, the reason why I was depressed and did not dare to speak was because I couldn't afford to offend him.

Now the wind has turned. With Microsoft at the forefront and WPS following behind, they can naturally take back the market that should belong to them. Coupled with the free personal version of WPS, the application rate has been greatly increased.

He Yang sighed, "People don't die."

"What else can you do?"

"Office software is not good, so look for it in other directions."

"Is the news accurate?"

"Ninety-nine percent. It is estimated that the relevant departments will hold an open tender in the middle of this month to build a filtering software to serve the people of the country for free."

Zhou Buqi had a black line on his forehead, "What kind of filtering software is this?"

He Yang said: "The information on the Internet is so complicated and messy now, and it is full of all kinds of disharmonious content. Installing this filtering software can filter out these contents."

"How to filter this?"

Zhou Buqi has a headache, this group of people can really mess up moths.

He Yang said: "I heard that it will cost 50 million to bid, maybe 45 million? Anyway, this is the one-year license fee for the software. It probably means that the state spends money to purchase it and give it to the people for free, in the name of protecting young people's healthy Internet access."

Zhou Buqi said: "It's easy to say, but how can it be that simple? To filter out bad information, you must first be able to identify bad information, right? What level of technology does this require? Even if it can be identified, there is so much information on the Internet, how big does it have to be? How much calculation does it take? Can an ordinary computer run it? With this software turned on, the memory will not be used up? "

He Yang said: "Yes, I asked Xu Liangjie. He said that the United States has been clamoring for ten years to protect teenagers from accessing the Internet. Major companies have invested tens of millions of dollars to develop various blocking technology systems, but the effect is insignificant. good."

"This matter has been settled?"

"It's almost the same group of people who go out to bid for projects."

"We won't participate!"

Zhou Buqi snorted coldly.

He Yang said worriedly: "I'm just afraid of public revenge."

"Um?"

"Filtering software, in name, filters out bad information. If it blocks advertisements or some content on Friends.com and Weibo, it will cause us a lot of losses. After all... the office software may have to be settled. On your head."

He Yang's worries are not unreasonable.

This group of people has a lot of background and has been able to successfully obtain large orders from the country twice. Naturally, they will not be afraid of the influence of Boss Zhou.

"You overestimate them!" Zhou Buqi disapproved, "Just deal with it coldly and pretend you don't know. If it really gets serious, I have a hundred ways to deal with them."

Zhou Buqi didn't pay much attention to these things.

After San Dezi came to China, he went to Focus Media with him.

Jiang Nanchun warmly welcomes you.

Mr. Jiang is no stranger to the Internet. He became a billionaire by playing with the Internet ten years ago. At that time, he ran an Internet advertising company, and he provided advertisements for Internet companies near the Yangtze River Delta.

Later, the bubble crisis broke out and his company closed down. Only then did he find inspiration from the elevator entrance of the building, founded Focus Media, and started using the elevator advertising business model.

Now it is gradually entering the Internet and cooperating with Ziweixing.

Zhou Buqi’s ideas for European stadium billboards, from online to offline, actually came from Focus Media.

However, Jiang Nanchun's life has not been easy recently.

"Oh! Don't mention it!"

"What's wrong?"

"You Internet companies are too careless."

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "Don't attack with shotguns."

Jiang Nanchun said in a broken voice: "It was originally negotiated last summer that Sina would acquire Focus' digital advertising business, and it was officially made public in December. I have also made appropriate layoffs and business adjustments in accordance with their requirements, and we are waiting. I handed it over. The result is great. I received a message recently saying that I won’t buy it!”

Coincidentally, Zhou Buqi had just read the internal report of the Internet industry and said with a smile: "You must have misunderstood Lao Cao."

Jiang Nanchun frowned, "He really hurt me!"

Zhou Buqi said: "It is true that Lao Cao is the chairman and CEO of Sina, but he is only a professional manager and he has no control over the board of directors."

"I know, he apologized to me, and he was very unwilling to do so."

"Sina's board of directors is mainly made up of foreign capital. They attach great importance to the unity of the industry. Sina is engaged in Internet business. If it suddenly buys an offline advertising business, it is suspected of not doing its job properly. Your concept of 'cross-media collaboration' is not recognized by others. I heard that Lao Cao is very dissatisfied and wants to cause trouble."

"What's up?"

"event!"

Zhou Buqi looked mysterious.

Jiang Nanchun frowned, "Isn't it convenient to say?"

Zhou Buqi said: "It's nothing inconvenient. Lao Cao may lead his team to force the palace and engage in management buyout."

Jiang Nanchun opened his eyes wide, "So cruel? He never told me!"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "You should be more ruthless, otherwise how can the company's business develop? The business that was originally negotiated was rejected by the board of directors, and everyone was upset. I estimate that this matter can be resolved in the summer or autumn. . When the time comes, you can just deliver with them and continue trading.”

Jiang Nanchun nodded.

I am very optimistic about the "cross-media collaboration" business model he designed together with Fuxing Lao Guo and Sina Lao Cao. Even if there are difficulties, we will persist for another six months!