The entertainment industry shouldn't be like this

Chapter 229 The Undeniable Beauty Trap (4K)

Regardless of whether it is film and television investment in the China entertainment industry or Internet venture capital, it is normal for the entire negotiation process to last for several months when it involves the rights and interests of both parties.

But compared to the "small fights" of film and television investment, this round of financing of Weibo Technology is bound to be world-class. After all, many heavyweight venture capital institutions have been alarmed and are engaged in intense wrestling .

But the tension is theirs. Weibo Technology continues to make efforts according to its own rhythm, and has entered a stage of rapid product iteration——

After the success of Penguin Space beyond the expectations of the industry, Penguin Communication launched the "Penguin Pet" immediately, completing the progression from the dress-up mode to the cultivation mode.

Digital pets are nothing new. Domestic game manufacturers have launched similar digital pets before, but they have not achieved popular results.

However, the "fat penguin" of Weibo Technology itself is an anthropomorphic digital pet, which has natural user advantages——

For many netizens who are used to hanging this "fat penguin" on the Internet, it is more like their own children than the previous digital pets; when the "penguin pet" can provide users with feeding, learning, part-time jobs, entertainment, marriage, etc. After a variety of leisure and entertainment experiences, it is easy to incite their complex of pets.

Of course, these services all cost virtual currency.

From the perspective of external observers, the connotation of this product can be described as extremely shallow, but Weibo Technology has very accurately hit the users, well, at least it is the emotional psychology of some users——

They don't know the number of users and simultaneous online users of "Penguin Pet" for the time being, but seeing more and more friends around them, especially female friends, they don't hesitate to recharge and become Penguin members in order to cultivate this "fat penguin". Know this product is made!

At the same time, after Penguin Space introduced the "Farm Planting Vegetables" game, this casual game that has been popular for a year has been revived again——

In the past year, the small game of "Growing Vegetables on the Farm" has been like the most powerful booster to push the satellite into the established orbit. Hundreds of thousands of new users poured into Penguin Communication every day. Zhuangda has made great contributions.

Of course, no one can expect such a small casual game to be popular for long. In fact, after entering the new year, the activity of this game has dropped significantly compared to its peak period.

Just when the industry thought that it was about to complete its historical mission, the launch of Penguin Space and membership system actually brought a stimulating effect to this game!

In the latest version of the game, not only new crop varieties have been added, but also the membership system has been fully connected with the purchase of virtual items such as "seeds", "fertilizers" and "pesticides". Since then, the number of krypton gold users has increased sharply, and its online The on-hook time is also longer than before.

Of course, in terms of popularity, it is definitely not as good as the period of "all people stealing food", but it still made a good start for Weibo Technology's game profit model, and also served as a traffic portal to support the newly launched casual competitive games ——

The chess and card games of Penguin Space and "Penguin Speed" have been launched one after another. These games are acquired from the industry. After optimization and upgrading by the game development team, once they go online, they have reduced the dimensionality of similar products on the market;
The aggregation advantages of Penguin Communications are fully revealed in this process-users only need to know what game their friends are playing through the newly added display window. After clicking, they will directly jump to the game room, and then they can join...

With Penguin Communication rapidly approaching 2 million users, randomly generated gamers can scare their peers to death!

In fact, the new game has only been online for half a month, and the number of concurrent users is already comparable to that of the best players in the same category; and as time goes by, almost everyone believes that the comparison between the number of users between the two will become more drastic The ebb and flow of contrast!

The launch of this series of new products has been widely welcomed by users, and has greatly stimulated the activity and commercial income of Penguin Space——

Weibo Technology has not announced traffic data and revenue data, but it is said that Weibo Technology has added two to three thousand servers in this quarter alone; Money saves the situation.

This caused shock to the entire Internet industry, and almost everyone was thinking about a terrible question——

After this round of financing, Weibo Technology will expand aggressively; if one day, it enters my territory, can I resist?

……

"This Wang Weizhente is a genius! Starting from locking in a real appeal point and striving to achieve the ultimate in user experience; then capture consumer groups from the huge user base; after forming a certain number of basic users, launch advanced products. Step-by-step paid commercial services; and continue to optimize and try to extend the life cycle of the product; finally continue to find new appeal points..."

"How long has he planned for today? One year? Two years? Even the day he founded Weibo Technology? I have never seen a young man with such strategic vision!"

Dai Peng, the founder of Pengcheng Venture Capital Fund, once again gathered a group of partners together, expressing his admiration for Wang Wei.

No one disagreed with his words.

After demonstrating the genius integration and use of traffic resources and strong product development capabilities, Weibo Technology can be said to have fully grasped the initiative in financing.

——Such a skillful way of using virtual goods to make profits, if he hadn't planned it long ago, it would be too insulting to the IQ of everyone present.

Such a long-sighted, but at the same time, the founder who can hold his breath really makes all the competitors palpitate.

Fortunately, they are not competitors, but want to invest in him.

"Well, the question now is, how do we impress him with such a brilliant talent?"

Dai Peng looked around and officially entered today's discussion topic.

You can't really rush to flatter like those people in the entertainment industry, can you?

"First of all, money is not a problem." A bald partner said calmly, "Not to mention that our fund has just completed a round of fundraising and has enough ammunition. Even if Weibo Technology's final valuation far exceeds our expectations, it can still form an investment. Group joint capital injection."

Another partner with broad shoulders and a fat body took a deep puff of cigarette, shook his head and said, "No, no, no, we will first consider injecting capital alone."

"The success of Weibo technology at this stage shows that virtual goods may represent a huge business opportunity. I think that small payments made of virtual goods - not just small toys - can generate large revenues, that is, Weibo Bo Technology may not need multiple rounds of financing to be listed."

"Besides, no one is a fool and will not give Weibo Technology an infinite valuation, so the key to competing for this round of financing is not money!"

Dai Peng gave a faint "hmm".

The bald partner rubbed his chin, frowning a little.

"Then we have to fight for management talents? We certainly have a group of outstanding and experienced professional managers in our hands, but our competitors also have no shortage of management talents. If we are unlucky..."

It's no secret that Weibo Technology needs top professional managers to join, at least it's not a secret to top venture capital institutions like them.

Investigate his entrepreneurial team through relationships, and you will know that all of them are technicians; and a successful company must have multi-dimensional management.

Obviously, this point is to venture capital to contribute.

But as the bald-headed partner said, if they compete for talents with small investment companies, they are sure to win; but who can’t pull out ten or eight executives from the hands of the top venture capital players participating in this round of financing competition?

This is the most intolerable reason for homogeneous competition - no one has an advantage, which leads to a chaotic competitive situation and brings great trouble to their decision-making.

Dai Peng looked pensive, and after a while, he said slowly: "So we need a big killer move, a big killer move that Wang Wei can't refuse - beauty trap!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was really interested.

The so-called sexuality, since ancient times, the beauty trick has been tried repeatedly - how many heroes can stand proudly when facing the enemy, but they are always short-tempered when facing beautiful women; this trick has even affected human society for thousands of years. historical process.

Logically speaking, for a boy like Wang Wei, using those beauties with extremely smooth skin and long legs to make him fall into a gentle town and obediently submit is a good idea;
but--

"Old Dai, don't forget, what circle is Wang Wei most familiar with, the entertainment circle! Is there any place that has more beauties than the entertainment circle? Besides, with a girlfriend as beautiful as Shen Zhenyi, Does Wang Wei still like other beauties?"

The fat partner shook his head and said.

"..."

"Hey, what do you mean by looking at me with such weird eyes?"

The bald partner smiled, "Dude, you are also a man. Do you think that a man who steals food must be prettier than his girlfriend or wife?"

"Freshness is the key!"

There was a small burst of approving laughter from the surrounding partners.

"It's rough and not rough." Dai Peng coughed lightly, but changed the topic: "But we can't destroy their relationship, because as far as I know, Wang Wei and Shen Zhenyi's relationship is really good, so let's show it to them It’s the same, at least it’s the case now. So this beauty trick is not that beauty trick, so don’t be self-defeating.”

"Then the beauty trick you're talking about is..."

"Absorb Shen Zhenyi as a partner of our fund!"

When the elites heard these words, their smiles froze and their eyelids twitched.

"Should we recruit her as the general partner or the limited partner?" the bald partner asked the most critical question.

A venture capital fund usually has many investors, but most of them are limited partners, also known as investors, who only participate in the sharing of investment returns, but do not participate in the decision-making and management of the fund;
The general partner, in addition to contributing a certain amount of funds, also manages the fund and makes decisions for each investment.

Those present are undoubtedly the latter.

Dai Peng once again played his eclectic style of employment: "The final decision is to take everyone's opinions into account, but I am inclined to recruit her as the general partner."

Another moment of silence.

Someone said in a complicated mood, "Is this really appropriate?"

This sentence can also be translated as, is she really worthy?
Because to become the general partner, especially the general partner of Pengcheng Venture Capital, which is one of the best in the industry, either comes from a technical elite, or has founded his own technology company, and the worst is the senior management of the company. Certainly not including entertainment stars who have no industry experience at all!

Dai Peng understood their feelings very well, but since he brought it up, he had his own reasons——

"The key to whether she is worthy is not how much experience she has, but whether she can help us win this round of financing!"

His eyes swept over the partners who were all concerned, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, I judged the same as you, Weibo Technology may only need one or two rounds of financing, and then it will be the IPO stage. If it goes public, then this What kind of behemoth will it be?"

"Will the one billion we invest now become 100 billion? 200 billion? Or more? Isn't this worth every opportunity we have to fight for? Are you really willing to miss such an opportunity that may be the most legendary in your investment career?" moment?"

No one answered.

In other words, there is no need to answer.

Internet companies that can be listed now have at least doubled their stock prices, and some miraculously doubled on the day they went public;
Weibo Technology is currently valued at 100 billion yuan. If it goes public, as one of the benchmark companies representing the global wave of new technologies, its market value will increase tenfold or even higher. Is it really impossible?
On this planet, the opportunity to double more than one billion huge sums of money, for many investors, will never be encountered even in their entire lives.

No one would give up, or they wouldn't come together again and again, trying to give away their money.

After a while of silence, someone asked, "Can Shen Zhenyi really influence Wang Wei's decision?"

It is no exaggeration to say that Wang Wei's own inner world is so strong that ordinary people can influence it, even if he has been able to use all kinds of soft and hard methods in the China entertainment industry to get to where he is now.
Dai Peng said without blinking: "This is what she needs to consider. If she doesn't grind down Wang Wei and prove her ability, why should we recruit her as the general partner?"

"Grind it! That is indeed the advantage of women!"

An old driver drove the car quite skillfully.

Everyone laughed knowingly.

Laughing and laughing, everyone slowly fell silent again.

Someone murmured: "Tang Yu's Luo Dong is really wronged!"

No one answered, but everyone nodded silently.

In terms of qualifications, resources, and vision... Director Luo of Tangyu Media absolutely crushes Shen Zhenyi.

But so what?
Shen Zhenyi has the opportunity to "grind" Wang Wei, but Luo Dong will only make Wang Wei proud. As long as they want to take advantage of Weibo technology, they can only choose the former and abandon the latter.

Everyone here is well-informed, so they naturally understand that sometimes the world is really unreasonable-forgive you for trying to figure it out, it might as well meet someone by chance, and fate will take a big turn, and the sky will go straight up.

However, thinking of a "little girl" who would be equal to them, complex and unspeakable emotions still surged in my heart.

Dai Peng was also silent for a moment, and then calmly said: "Then let it be like this, everyone raise their hands to vote, and agree to recruit Shen Zhenyi as the general partner, please raise your hands."

one, two, three...

There were many arms in the meeting room, but it was unanimously approved!

——No one believed in Wang Wei's "concentration"!
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　I wish you all a Happy New Year!May everyone see hope in the new year!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)