My rebirth is different

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This time, I came here to congratulate Yu Wenfei, and secondly, Sun Zhengyi also wanted to find out whether Facebook and Facebook games still have financing plans.

If there is, then Softbank will definitely continue to participate. If not, Sun Zhengyi intends to persuade Yu Wenfei to start a new round of financing plans!

Softbank's shareholding in the Facebook family company is too small, which makes Sun Zhengyi a little dissatisfied.

How can such a promising company only take such a small share.

A group of people came to the large conference room on the top floor. First, Cai Congxin and Effie reported some recent situations of the company respectively. Sun Zhengyi nodded frequently while listening.

In fact, Xue Chunhe often informed him about many things.

Anyway, Softbank also has a seat on Facebook's board of directors. Of course, it doesn't matter if it invests so much money. The company's important data is often copied and sent to Xue Chunhe.

"Very good! According to this trend, Facebook and Facebook games can actually start to consider going public!"

After listening to the work report, Sun Zhengyi said with a smile on his face.

Yu Wenfei shook his head slightly, "Mr. Sun, Facebook may be listed earlier, but Facebook games will not be listed in a short time."

Sun Zhengyi was taken aback, and asked back: "Why? I think the momentum of Facebook games is rising more fiercely, and game projects will be more profitable in the future. After Facebook games are launched, the market value may be higher than Facebook!"

"Because Facebook games still need to continue to raise funds for development, rushing to go public is not a good thing for it." Yu Wenfei explained with a smile.

"Financing is still needed? Didn't we just raise [-] million US dollars internally? It seems that there is nothing to spend a lot of money in this period of time." Sun Zhengyi asked puzzled.

"It will be there soon!"

Yu Wenfei looked at Effie, "Inform everyone about that incident."

Of course, Effie understood what "that matter" meant, and she had already prepared for it, and said seriously: "Facebook Games is preparing for an acquisition, which requires a large amount of financial support."

Another acquisition?

Sun Zhengyi, Xue Chunhe, and Cai Congxin all cheered up. The last time Facebook Games acquired Ogilvy & Mather, it brought the company such a "big killer" as Facebook Battle.net!

Everyone has seen the achievements of Facebook Battle.net since its launch. It is no exaggeration to say that the launch of Facebook Battle.net has definitely increased the valuation of Facebook Games by at least [-]%!

What surprises will this acquisition bring to everyone?

"Fei Zong and I have already discussed, and now there is a good opportunity, we can acquire Blizzard..."

"puff……"

"what?"

"Blizzard?! Are you crazy?!"

Xue Chunhe, who was drinking water, spewed out a sip of water, and Cai Congxin and Sun Zhengyi also exclaimed.

Everyone originally thought that the acquisition that Effie was talking about was the acquisition of a certain domestic game platform or game company.

No one thought that it would be Blizzard!

It can be said that the market value of Blizzard is at least two or three times that of Facebook games at this stage.

Moreover, the Facebook game has only been created for a few months, and Blizzard has already become famous all over the world. No matter how you look at it, it is a "snake swallowing elephant".

"Why not? Ladies and gentlemen, please think about it carefully. Although Facebook Games is a new company, Facebook Games is no longer a small company in any way! We are not listed. If we do, Facebook Will the market value of the game be lower than that of Blizzard?" Effie said seriously.

The meeting room fell silent, and everyone reacted.

Thinking about it seriously, it is true that as Effie said, everyone subconsciously felt that Facebook Games was just established, and it was still a small company, and there was no capital to acquire Blizzard.

But these are false impressions, and impressions can be deceiving, data are not.

Facebook Games now has two pillar businesses: Facebook Chess and Cards Platform and Facebook Battle.net. The registered users of these two game platforms have exceeded 2000 million, and the number of online users.

These data, taken out to say, no matter in any country, it is a giant-level company.

That is to say, Facebook Games has not yet publicly raised funds, nor has it been listed, so everyone does not have an intuitive understanding of its market value.

"Indeed, I really didn't expect that Facebook Games has grown to the point where it can acquire Blizzard. I admit that we underestimated Facebook Games." Masayoshi Son sighed.

"Because of the conceptual conflict between Blizzard and the parent company Vivendi, several founders may leave the company, and a large number of key employees will also leave with them. I met and chatted with Alan and Mike and wanted to take this opportunity , take back Blizzard’s shares from Vivendi, and make Blizzard a professional game production company under Facebook Games.” Yu Wenfei said with a smile.

"How much money do you need? Is Mr. Fei planning to raise money publicly?" Masayoshi Son asked sensitively.

"15 billion US dollars, whether or not to raise funds publicly depends on what President Sun wants." Yu Wenfei said with a smile.

What do you mean?

Sun Zhengyi rolled his eyes, thought for a while, and smiled.

Although Yu Wenfei meant to "slaughter fat sheep", Sun Zhengyi was not angry, because this was a great opportunity to expand Softbank Capital's shareholding in Facebook games!

"This money...we can pay from Softbank! But, the equity structure of the Facebook game..." he said slowly.

"In Mr. Sun's opinion, how much is the Facebook game worth now?" Yu Wenfei said bluntly.

Now Masayoshi Son is a bit stuck, because Softbank took out 15 billion, how much shares in Facebook games can get, this depends on the valuation of Facebook games.

However, the question of how much the Facebook game is worth is difficult to answer.

If you just look at the number of registered users, the number of people online, and the prospect of future profitability, Facebook games are worth more than Facebook!

But he is unwilling to admit this fact in his heart, because in this case, it means that after paying a huge sum of 15 billion US dollars, he still can't take up many shares.

"Well, 15 billion US dollars is not a small amount. We need to do due diligence and give a valuation." Xue Chunhe next to him hurriedly smoothed things over.

This is also what it should mean, 15 billion US dollars, no matter which company it is, it is not something that can be taken out casually.

Yu Wenfei nodded, but he added: "Take time, because I will soon acquire Blizzard. If Softbank can't do it, I have other channels to prepare the money."

Sun Zhengyi glanced at Yu Wenfei suspiciously. He felt that Yu Wenfei was bragging. He spent 15 billion US dollars at a time. Whether it was a bank or a VC, there were not many in the world.

Does Yu Wenfei really have other channels?

Or is it just to put pressure on SoftBank...

Chapter 543 Super Unicorn

Softbank is very rich, especially at the beginning of the century, when Softbank invested in half of the Internet industry in the world!

Basically, behind all well-known Internet companies, there is Softbank.

The acquisition of Blizzard required a huge amount of funds, so Yu Wenfei's idea went to Softbank, who made Softbank the second largest shareholder of Facebook Games.

Wouldn't it be too wasteful to not use such a big benefactor by his side.