Chapter 621: Ten million? No, one hundred million!
Oh my god!
These four words immediately popped up in Xing Dao's mind.
miHoYo!
MiHoYo!
Although everyone uses a certain game to make fun of it and recommends some weird people to play it to make the behavior seem reasonable.
But everyone knows how popular and profitable that game is.
It is one of the top three mobile game revenues and was once ranked first on the overseas revenue list. It is a phenomenal game that has raked in nearly 30 billion in revenue in two years!
Buying 2% of the shares for one million is still too expensive?
Please take as many as you can!
"Teacher Guo, can you still contact that friend of yours? Can you give me a recommendation?"
There was no need for Xing Dao to be nonchalant or play hard to get in front of his teammates. He directly expressed his thoughts: "I've heard of the company MiHoYo, the one that made Honkai Impact 3rd. I'm interested in buying their shares."
"You want to buy 2% for 1 million? Oh, you have money." Spicy Hotpot said simply, "Then I'll talk to them for you and help you negotiate the price."
"No, no, Mr. Guo, just push the person to me. No need to negotiate the price." Xing Dao hurriedly dissuaded.
2% of one million is a price you can’t even dream of.
What the hell, you still want to negotiate the price!
If you lose the person, you will compensate?
"OK!"
This time, Mala Xiangguo followed suit.
I flipped through WeChat.
He pushed a business card over.
Xing Dao first applied to add a friend, waited for approval, and then asked a few questions directly.
I learned that miHoYo was working on a new game and was a little short of funds, so they had the idea of raising funds...but they were not firm in their thoughts, and the actual price was more than 2% of one million. They just mentioned the past when chatting with Mala Xiangguo.
If you really want to invest, you can add the founder to discuss it in detail.
After many twists and turns.
Xing Dao got the contact information of Cai Haoyu, one of the founders of miHoYo.
"Brother Jie, I heard that you are planning to invest in our company?"
Cai Haoyu just finished watching the Asian Games live broadcast.
Seeing one of the core team members coming over, I was .
"Boss Cai, just call me Xing Dao." Xing Dao said in a serious tone, "It's like this, I heard that your company is in need of funds. I'm a loyal player who has been playing Honkai Impact 3 since Honkai Impact 2, and I want to support you."
"Well..." Cai Haoyu thought for a while, and typed two sentences as a businessman would, then deleted them and typed again: "Let's get straight to the point. We are actually quite resistant to financing. We have rejected many companies in recent years, but Brother Jie, as an old player, I personally think you can support us... but we need to hold a meeting to discuss it."
The operating income of Honkai Impact 3rd in 2017 was 587.9 million yuan.
Net profit was 447 million yuan.
The revenue in 2018 was slightly higher than this.
If Cai Haoyu, Liu Wei and Luo Yuhao, the three major shareholders, just wanted to sit back and enjoy their profits, they would definitely be financially independent.
But the three founders of miHoYo have never been the type to be content with a small fortune. From the beginning of Honkai Impact 3, they have invested all the recovered funds into the development of new games.
The success of Honkai Impact 3 and Honkai Impact 3 further fueled the ambitions of the three founders.
Last January, miHoYo hired a top team of thousands of people to create an open world adventure game.
However……
As we were working on it, we found that we didn't have enough funds.
The company wanted to raise funds through an IPO, but failed because it only had a single IP, Honkai Impact 3rd, which was considered unstable by the evaluation team and resulted in the IPO failing.
They wanted to make money through the game activities in Honkai Impact 3, but because they drew the Valkyrie in the Chinese server as a bunny girl in the foreign servers, it caused a large number of players to protest. They had to remove the foreign server videos and apologize to the Chinese server players.
This time, not only domestic players are dissatisfied.
Foreign players are even more dissatisfied.
After all these operations, MiHoYo didn't get much profit and got into trouble, with its revenue plummeting.
This new open-world adventure game is nearing completion. If the funding chain breaks, it will be an unbearable blow to miHoYo. It is no exaggeration to say that it is in a difficult situation.
What?
Put the development plan on hold and restart the project when you have money?
These people in the team, especially the main designers , have long been poached by other companies!
Xing Dao coming to him was something Cai Haoyu had been longing for.
After all, it is never easy to inject capital into a large company.
Such industry oligarchs will obtain actual control through means that ordinary businessmen would never think of, and either recruit or squeeze out the original shareholders, and may even end up in jail.
This is why the three founders of miHoYo have always been very averse and resolutely refused to raise funds.
But personal financing from top LOL players with clear identities is another concept.
The three founders, Cai Haoyu, Liu Wei and Luo Yuhao, reject the kind of giants that can freeze your account at will and get the greatest support in all fields.
As for someone like Xing Dao...
There is no other way to put it better.
It doesn’t matter if there are other opinions.
——Whether it is playing tricks or playing with rules, Cai Haoyu, Liu Wei and Luo Yuhao are not afraid!
Except for the 15% stake held by Hangzhou Miyi Investment Co., Ltd., the remaining 85% of MiHoYo's shares are all in the hands of Cai Haoyu, Liu Wei and Luo Yuhao.
The so-called meeting is just three people getting together to discuss.
Consensus was quickly reached.
And proposed the following general terms:
First of all, the investment must be in the tens of millions, and ten million can only account for 3%.
The so-called one million and 2% was just a casual remark made by the employees based on an incident discussed during the project establishment phase of the new game plan at the beginning of last year.
From 2017 to 2018, miHoYo's ability to make money skyrocketed.
If you want to make additional investments, you naturally have to recalculate according to the current situation.
Secondly, before miHoYo went public, if Xing Dao wanted to sell his shares, they could only be bought back by Cai Haoyu, Liu Wei, and Luo Yuhao at the market price, and could not be sold to any third party.
This is also a case of playing the villain first and the gentleman later, taking out an insurance policy in advance.
There are a variety of detailed agreements that follow, but they are not important. Just ask a lawyer to review and interpret them when you sign the formal contract.
The 3% of 10 million is a world of difference from the 2% of 1 million mentioned by Mala Xiangguo.
but.
After listening to Cai Haoyu's explanation and looking at miHoYo's revenue over the past year and a half, I thought about miHoYo's future prospects.
Xing Dao thought the price was very reasonable.
No problem at all.
When the national team returns to Shanghai, we will go directly to a lawyer to sign the contract.
"Brother Jie, you offer 10 million?"
Out of politeness, Cai Haoyu didn't want to call Xing Dao by his name directly. It was also difficult to separate the characters into single characters, and he couldn't call him XX contestant, so he just used the common name on the Internet.
"Ten million? No, no, no." Xing Dao denied: "I'll give you 100 million!"
"One hundred million?" Cai Haoyu was obviously shocked.
"Yes, one hundred million!" Xing Dao said without hesitation: "But this one hundred million must be divided into several parts. I can't take it out all at once."
"How to divide it?" When Cai Haoyu asked, he was mentally prepared to divide it into more than ten installments to get the full investment, and he planned to find a professional appraiser to analyze how to calculate the equity ratio...
To put it bluntly, it is to lower the price through various statements.
It is definitely impossible to distribute 30% of the shares.
"I'll give your company 50 million for the first time, and you can transfer it after the contract is signed. The rest will be paid in full during the transfer period at the end of the year. You can also calculate the interest extra." Xing Dao didn't know much about business, so he just said whatever he had in mind.
"That..." Cai Haoyu suppressed all the thoughts that had just arisen in his mind, and there was a hint of embarrassment in his words: "We can't transfer so many shares..."
