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Chapter 219

There is something in Irene's words, and it contains a sentence of Silverman and CUC International, how CUC International handles Xuele Mountain, and wants to squeeze every drop of oil and water from Xuele Mountain.

In this way, Silverman even has the face to say that CUC International attaches great importance to Xueleshan!
When we came to negotiate today, we can see the clues. Basically, the people who came were from CUC International. People from Xueleshan, Blizzard and other companies did not come. Obviously, CUC International did not care about the opinions of these two companies.

Silverman and the staff of CUC International Company seem to have never heard of Irene's connotation. They came here today to sell Xuele Mountain for a high price. CUC International doesn't care.

Even if it has a good reputation, can it be a beauty, for CUC International and many American companies, only beauty and stock price are the favorites, except for Monsanto, which is really angry, there is no way , had to merge with other peers and change the name, the rest of the company didn't care about reputation at all!
Like CUC International, as long as it can increase the stock price, it will be the darling of Wall Street. Its reputation is good, even if it is outside, Wall Street can send those who open prisons to the market. The previous world's first night market, RICK, can also pass Nasdaq , you can see America's views on reputation here.

Silverman laughed, and turned his eyes around Irene. He could see that Irene seemed a little dissatisfied with him and CUC International. Obviously, for CUC International, it was wrong to release the acquisition news to raise the price. very dissatisfied.

But this is Silverman's style, throwing out a coin and earning two coins back, Xueleshan will definitely sell for a fortune.

"CUC International also hopes to cooperate with ICQ. I have always hoped to cooperate with Song once!" Silverman said to Song Yang.

Song Yang glanced at Irene, and signaled her to start quoting, and if he continued to argue with Silverman, he probably wouldn't have any reaction. In Silverman's eyes, such a shameless thing might not be as useful as a piece of toilet paper.

"ICQ hopes to acquire all the companies in Xueleshan, including other Blizzard studios!" Irene finally opened her mouth to make an offer.

Hearing this, Silverman had a regretful expression on his face, as if he was very reluctant to offer Sierra Mountain to ICQ, but what he said did not show that he was not willing to give up Sierra Mountain, but had to pay more...

"The board of directors of CUC International Company, the selling price for Xueleshan is [-] million US dollars!" Silverman gritted his teeth and said a shocking figure.

Hearing the price, Irene immediately had the urge to leave the venue. She didn't know if CUC International was crazy!

You must know that a few years ago, when Blizzard sold itself to Xueleshan, it was only 670 million dollars. When Xueleshan and Blizzard sold themselves to CUC International, it was only 1.06 million dollars, although it was not all equity.

But even if Blizzard develops a few games with good sales and the game industry is recovering, it is impossible for Xueleshan and Blizzard to directly increase the price by seven times. It's over!
Song Yang heard the price, but he didn't turn his face. Silverman kept staring at ICQ. Silverman could see the expressions of Irene and other ICQ executives, but Song Yang didn't seem to react at all. Yang, but Silverman couldn't see through it.

Hearing this offer, Irene was so angry that she took off her old-fashioned glasses, and looked at Silverman with unkind eyes.

But the more this is the case, the more confident Silverman is. He just used this price to test ICQ. Irene's reaction proves that ICQ really wants Xueleshan, and that it values ​​Xueleshan more than he imagined. Otherwise, Irene wouldn't have a reaction.

I have to say that Jiang is still old and hot. For these acquisition methods and methods, the ones who can be compared with Silverman are probably Martin Solo, Jotus and others. Irene's skill is still a bit worse .

But Song Yang's reaction made Silverman unable to see through it. When Song Yang heard his quotation of [-] million US dollars, Song Yang didn't even jump his eyelids, which made Silverman somewhat confused. I don't know Song Yang's attitude towards Xuele Mountain.

Song Yang didn't know that Silverman was guessing his thoughts there. Seven hundred million US dollars is indeed not cheap, but it hasn't exceeded Song Yang's bottom line. Besides, isn't this first quotation just for a half discount? ? !
Is it a loss to exchange [-] million or even [-] million U.S. dollars for a Xuele Mountain and Blizzard?

This year, they must be suspected of being taken advantage of. They are still in the traditional game stage. The game industry that mainly supplies consoles has a ceiling. It is impossible to earn more than Nintendo and Sony game consoles.

Only when the game is connected to the Internet, will it be like opening up Ren Du's second line, open up the attributes of your own Internet game, and sell a champion skin, which costs hundreds of millions of dollars in just a few steps.

As for the purchase price of 100 to 200 million U.S. dollars, Xueleshan’s game distribution channels all over the world, plus Blizzard, don’t say that it will pay back in one or two years, if it takes a few years, if ICQ wants to sell Blizzard one day, it will not give If there is a price of [-] billion or [-] billion US dollars, it is estimated that those acquirers will have no face to come to ICQ.

"President Silverman, ICQ intends to cooperate with CUC International, but the price is too high. Last year, CUC International's annual revenue did not exceed $40 billion!"

Song Yang looked at Silverman and said, how outrageous is this price? Last year, the revenue of the entire CUC International did not exceed 40 billion US dollars. Now that Xue Leshan is sold, he dares to bid [-] million US dollars, which is equivalent to CUC's last year's revenue One-sixth of that, once it is sold, the selling price of a Xuele Mountain is probably higher than the net profit of CUC for the whole year last year...

CUC International is engaged in traditional industries, such as hotels, tourism, real estate, catering, retail, and emerging computer software businesses. There are many businesses involved, but the profit margins are there. It is impossible to make huge profits like Microsoft. CUC Other companies are also doing the things they did, so it is impossible to say that they are making huge profits out of thin air.

"President Silverman, ICQ has only been established for less than six months, so it is really difficult to afford such a purchase price."

Irene said angrily, and almost shouted to close the door to thank customers. The current valuation of ICQ is less than [-] million US dollars. If there is such money, then ICQ will buy Xueleshan and Blizzard and build one directly. The game department is good, and it can save more money!
Silverman disagreed with this point, "What I heard is different from what President Irene said. I know that Wall Street is very supportive of ICQ!"

When he said this, Silverman looked at Song Yang unabashedly, and his meaning was very clear. ICQ has no money, but its father Song Yang has money. Relying on American Telecom, Song Yang has made a lot of money this year. Wall Street is also very supportive of Song Yang. As long as Song Yang comes forward, he will definitely be able to raise the [-] million dollars for ICQ.

Song Yang couldn't help laughing when he heard that, he did have money in his account, but to say that Song Yang took out all the cash to help ICQ buy, that's overthinking.

Song Yang’s American Global Investment Foundation will indeed “loan” part of the cash to ICQ, but ICQ will have to borrow from the bank for the rest. If the US knife comes to pay the bill, that is overthinking!
"President Silverman, you know that this price is impossible. If it is such a price, I'm really sorry. ICQ may need to find a new partner. It has cooperated with Activision, EA, or Ubisoft in Europe." Song Yang Also said without hesitation.

These days, ICQ really wants to spend 20 million US dollars, and there are many game manufacturers who are willing to throw their arms around ICQ. This is not 20 years later, but even 80 years later, the valuation of Ubisoft and other companies is only It's only 20 billion US dollars. If calculated according to inflation, the current [-] million US dollars is more valuable than what the hell will be [-] years later.

Silverman and the CUC executives looked at the resolute Song Yang and Irene, and knew that the [-] million US dollars must be worthless. They probably only have deep pockets, and sometimes they don’t know what a US dollar is. Microsoft, only when the brain is hot, will it come up with so many.

"For [-] million dollars, ICQ can bid [-] million dollars for Xue Leshan!"

Knowing that it was definitely impossible to win Xuele Mountain at the price of cabbage, and would be slaughtered, Irene didn't try any more. She also knew that it was definitely impossible to take advantage of an old fox like Silverman, so she simply drove out to approach Get the reserve price.

"[-] million U.S. dollars, Xuele Mountain is worth this price, Blizzard is developing a new game, this game is definitely worth [-] million U.S. dollars!"

The people from CUC International, unwilling to lower the price too much, released the news that Blizzard is developing a new game, and wanted to raise the price again.

When Song Yang heard the news, he couldn't help but think, whether Blizzard is developing Diablo or "StarCraft", but no matter which game, it will certainly not suffer. The current Blizzard has not yet reached the point of reckless cooking, so just let it go Playing remakes, nostalgic servers, and the like.

Nodding to Irene, Irene saw that Song Yang signaled to continue to increase the price. She was really puzzled that Song Yang valued Xueleshan and Blizzard so much. The price of [-] million US dollars can be negotiated with the current Activision Look at the purchase price.

But Song Yang agreed to continue bidding, and Irene had no choice but to continue bidding, "3000 million dollars!"

After Irene raised the price from US$5000 million to US$[-] million, the people from CUC International wanted to increase the price to US$[-] million, but Irene refused to make an offer.

"ICQ can only offer a purchase price of [-] million U.S. dollars. If CUC International is unwilling to accept this price, then I suggest that the two parties suspend the purchase negotiation!"

Irene slapped the table, showing the demeanor of a professional manager and a strong woman, and told the people of CUC International that if they didn't accept the offer, they would split it up, ICQ stopped the acquisition, and let them go to the next big guy.

Silverman looked towards Song Yang, and Song Yang made a helpless expression, indicating that this matter was decided by Irene!

"UCU International is willing to sell Xuele Mountain and its game studios such as Blizzard!" After thinking for a long time, Silverman dared not take any more risks.

(End of this chapter)