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To be honest, he has no idea how much Villefort is worth. After all, he has never considered selling the company.
But now the problem is in front of us. It should be regarded as an opportunity for Villefort to take refuge in Facebook games. In the future, he will be able to rely on a big tree to enjoy the shade, and it is also a great thing for Villefort to form a group with Blizzard.
Fatty G also knows how popular Facebook Battle.net is in China. He believes that after the establishment of the North American branch of Facebook, Facebook Battle.net will also become popular all over the world!
At that time, the games produced by the company will be placed in front of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of players immediately.
Just think how exciting that scene was!
"How about? [-] million US dollars!" Gritting his teeth, Fatty G said a number.
Villefort has been established for so many years, and it has not earned so much money in total.
Although Half-Life is very popular, the release of Half-Life is in the hands of Xue Leshan, and Villefort can't get much money.
Coupled with the inauthentic and falsified data on Xueleshan, the money Villefort got was pitifully small, otherwise Fatty G would not have gone to court with Xueleshan.
Effie glanced at him quite unexpectedly, "Are you sure it's this number?"
Fatty G was a little worried, did he ask for too much...
"Or... a little less is okay, for example..." he muttered.
"No need, it's [-] million US dollars, I think Villefort is worth the price!" Yu Wenfei interrupted him bluntly.
This moved Fat G a little bit, because his company was recognized by others.
In fact, Effie didn't feel that the price was too high, but did not expect Fatty G to quote such a low price!
Although Villefort has only one game IP, and this game is indeed not as good as Blizzard's three big IPs.
But the importance of CS to Facebook Battle.net is far beyond what Blizzard's few games can match.
Just for the Half-Life online copyright, Yu Wenfei is willing to pay [-] million or more.
But now, only needing to spend [-] million, not only got [-]% of Valve's shares, but also got CS's global network copyright agency, and took away the steam platform project.
No matter how you look at it, this business is too cost-effective!
After the agreement was reached, Yu Wenfei felt a little "bullying" Fatty G, an honest man, and taking advantage of him.
He smiled and said to him: "Well, as a gift for our cooperation, the lawsuit with Xuele Mountain will be taken over by Facebook Games North America, and we will accompany him in the lawsuit!"
Now Fatty G is even more excited. You know, in that ghostly place in North America, it is not easy for anyone or any company to go to court, although everyone there likes to go to court...
Because attorney fees are too expensive!
Why is it that Villefort is right, but the lawsuit with Xueleshan still gives him such a headache? Isn’t it because the parent company behind Xueleshan has money? It’s clear that it will be spent with Villefort. Fatty G feels sorry for the lawyer’s fee !
Facebook Games doesn't care about the cost of the lawsuit, and Yu Wenfei hopes to use a big lawsuit that attracts worldwide attention to create momentum for the establishment of Facebook Games North America Company!
Chapter 558 FACE GAME
After reaching a shareholding agreement with Fatty G, the things that Yu Wenfei came to the United States this time are basically done, and the rest is some finishing work.
The first thing is to open the North American branch of Facebook Games, and the second is to help Valverde settle the lawsuit.
If you want to sue Xue Leshan, you can't sue in the name of Facebook Game's China headquarters. This kind of transnational lawsuit has inherent disadvantages.But if the North American branch is established, and then the North American branch comes forward to sue, then the problem will be relatively simple.
Since it is going to open a branch of Facebook Games in North America, where to build the company is also a problem.
Of course, Yu Wenfei had already considered this issue long ago.
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San Francisco is usually called "San Francisco" and "San Francisco" by everyone.
This port city in California, USA, is a world-famous tourist destination, the fourth largest city in California by population, and the second largest city in economy.San Francisco is close to Silicon Valley, a world-renowned high-tech industrial zone. It is one of the most important high-tech research and development bases in the world and the most important financial center on the west coast of the United States. It is also the birthplace of the United Nations.
The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most important scientific, educational and cultural centers in the world. It has world-renowned institutions of higher learning, including the public University of California, Berkeley and the private Stanford University, as well as the world's top medical center, University of California, San Francisco.From here, more than a hundred Nobel Prize winners (107 from Berkeley, 83 from Stanford, etc.) and many Fields Medal winners (14 from Berkeley, 8 from Stanford), Turing Award winners (28 from Stanford, 25 from Berkeley) 200), and about [-] Olympic champions from the San Francisco Bay Area.
This city, which is famous all over the world, is actually not too big. Until 2003, San Francisco had a population of about 80, of which more than 15 were Chinese!This city is also one of the areas with the highest Chinese population density in the Western Hemisphere, and the total number of Chinese is second only to New York.
Although the city is not big, but because of Silicon Valley and several famous schools, there are not many large companies here, especially technology companies.
Apple, Google, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, etc., the headquarters of a large number of giant companies are all established in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The North American branch of Facebook Games also chose San Francisco!
This time, the company raised a total of 11 billion U.S. dollars in internal financing. The acquisition of Blizzard and Valve cost a total of 3000 billion U.S. dollars. Including the capital increase for Blizzard, there is still [-] million U.S. dollars left in hand.Adding in the remaining [-] million US dollars of the company, the total is [-] million US dollars, which can be said to be very abundant!
"Just buy an office building with a park, and this will be the base camp of our Facebook game in North America!" Yu Wenfei said with a big wave of his hand.
The land in the United States is vast and sparsely populated. Even a so-called big city like San Francisco has only a few hundred thousand people. The land is not expensive, and companies here prefer low-to-mid-rise office buildings rather than skyscrapers.
Therefore, the North American branch of Facebook Games is also planning to buy a small campus with a beautiful environment to provide the best working environment for employees. As we all know, employees in the high-tech industry have relatively high requirements for the office environment, and they should not be fooled casually.
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It is easy to do things if you are willing to spend money, and quickly found a suitable office building for sale through a real estate agency.
Just like most buildings in San Francisco, this office building is not high, with only eight floors in total, each floor covers an area of more than 3000 square meters, with a total construction area of more than 5000 square meters, and can accommodate [-] to [-] employees. .
Of course, if the data center is also taken into account, it may only accommodate more than 1000 employees.
In addition, this office building also has a park-like park attached to it, with towering trees and flowers and grass everywhere. There is a huge outdoor parking lot behind the office building, which can park more than 1000 cars.
The entire park covers an area of more than 5 square meters, which is also convenient for expansion after the company develops in the future.
The park was built only a few years ago. The original owner was also an Internet company, but it went bankrupt during the Internet winter two years ago.Now this piece of real estate is under the name of the bank, waiting to be sold to pay off the debt.
Yu Wenfei just took Effie for a tour and was very satisfied, so he decided to buy it.
"How much is the price of this park?" He casually asked the staff of the real estate agency accompanying him.
This young man is also of Chinese descent and speaks Chinese fluently. After hearing what Yu Wenfei said, he immediately replied: "It only needs 200 million US dollars!"
Effie clicked her tongue a little, 200 million, still in US dollars!
Even in a big city like Shanghai, such a piece of land can't cost so much money, not to mention that there is only one office building in this park, and the office building is not high.
Besides, this is all in the suburbs of San Francisco. If you really want to look at the address, this is No. [-], Hongyan Road, Clara County, San Francisco Bay Area...
Where does the land in a small county have the courage to sell it so expensive?
However, I have been in the United States for a while, and Effie also discovered that there is not much difference between cities and suburbs here, especially the San Francisco Bay Area, which you can regard as a scattered urban cluster.
Even the headquarters of those well-known Fortune [-] companies are actually located in various counties in the San Francisco Bay Area...