With Apple's current situation, as long as I'm willing to spend a lot of money, it shouldn't be a problem to acquire two or three shares. There's no rush anyway.

I thought about learning more about Blizzard Game Studio first.

Through McKinsey Consulting, Su Yehao temporarily crammed and investigated Blizzard Games' management list, revenue performance, equity structure, and other information.

This company is extremely popular in the market. Many peers are paying attention to it. McKinsey has readily available information. The relevant documents were quickly compiled and sent to Linda Yun's Google email account.

He had to be a little wary of these consulting firms that liked to sell other people's information for money.

Su Yehao's personal email was already frequently receiving advertising spam. He didn't want to be harassed by strangers seeking investment or discussing cooperation.

Even an internet tycoon like him can fall victim to the junk ads of the information age.

For example, an American adult... service company had been diligently sending him emails for more than half a year. Every time they recruited new people, they would take full-body photos and send them via email.

The company looked very formal, and of a very high class. The starting price for recruiting people was $50,000, and they also provided global door-to-door service, with travel and accommodation expenses calculated separately.

Among them were some models who had participated in fashion weeks, or foreign beauties who had won awards in beauty contests.

Perhaps because of this, Su Yehao wanted to blacklist the account many times, but in the end he couldn't bear to. He would occasionally open the emails to take a look, criticizing them with his eyes only, and never contacted them.

Until now, he didn't know why they knew his email.

He could only guess that it was leaked by a consulting firm, bank, or securities firm that he had worked with. After all, the personal information of super-rich people has always been particularly valuable in the market, and there will always be people who have bad ideas and trade the information of big clients.

......

While in Silicon Valley, he temporarily came up with the idea of acquiring a game company.

Su Yehao and Blizzard Game Studio have not had any communication yet, and he has not greeted its parent company.

For a "grandson company" like Blizzard Games, even if you reach an agreement with their management, it's useless. They are all a group of employees with little say, so why bother wasting words.

On the afternoon of the day he arrived in Los Angeles, he drove directly to the office building at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive, found someone from Universal Pictures and stated his intention. An executive from Universal Pictures told him that he could not make the decision and introduced Su Yehao to a representative of the parent company, Vivendi.

Vivendi is a French listed company that acquired Blizzard Games as early as 1998 and swallowed the famous Universal Pictures last year. It is even more crazy than Su Yehao when it comes to spending money, and continues to expand with debt.

Its business covers television stations, publishing, music, theme parks, water, energy, telecommunications, the internet, and so on.

After learning that Su Yehao wanted to acquire Blizzard, a middle-aged French executive named Kilian Gourcuff shook his head and said bluntly:

"We have no plans to sell it for the time being. The company president had a table-pounding argument with many shareholders over whether to enter the online game business. I don't think he will easily give up this part of the interest. Blizzard's user platform, Battle.net, has 13 million registered users, and many users log in every day. Last year's *Diablo II* sold more than 2 million copies. This is a large amount of revenue. According to your internet companies' calculations, I think it is worth at least three billion dollars, which is real money that can be seen.”

The implication was obvious. He was clearly saying that some internet companies are overvalued and cannot bring tangible benefits to the company.

Su Yehao felt targeted.

Hearing the number of three billion dollars, he knew that there was no way to continue the conversation.

It couldn't be said to be a rip-off, it was simply a whale of an opening. The other party was clearly calculating the value of game users as internet users. The difference was too great to communicate.

With a try-it-and-see attitude, Su Yehao said calmly:

"Blizzard is not an internet company. You can't use this number to calculate its value. As far as I know, Blizzard's turnover last year was only 110 million dollars."

Kilian Gourcuff was just a professional manager.

The two sides had no contact before, and there was no business relationship. On the contrary, because they were both in the game business, there was a certain competitive relationship.

This made him think that there was no need to please Su Yehao, and he immediately replied:

"Its turnover is not much, but it created a net profit of more than 66 million dollars, which is higher than your game companies. As long as we continue to launch new games, players will be willing to buy them. Blizzard's number of players has been expanding."

“......”

Listening to the other party's tone, he could understand their emphasis on Blizzard Games.

It was obviously impossible to pick up a bargain. Su Yehao didn't waste any time, got up and replied, "Your offer is far beyond my expectations. Let's forget it, but you can ask your president. Maybe he will have a different idea."

"No problem, I will communicate with the president, but I think his idea is the same as mine."

After Kilian Gourcuff finished speaking, he didn't even get up. He just smiled at Su Yehao and was busy pouring himself a glass of whisky.

There is no need to say more about Blizzard Games' performance. Especially after launching Battle.net with anti-piracy functions, the profit in the first half of this year was higher than the same period last year.

Their Vivendi Group was swallowing and acquiring everywhere in order to increase profits. It was not easy to find a good seedling, so of course they were unwilling to sell it at a low price...

Su Yehao had nothing to say after being rejected.

The more Jiang Yu thought about it, the angrier she became. Sitting in the car, she said, "That French old man is so annoying. I don't like his attitude."

"What can I do? I'm not the son of the Earth. I can't expect everyone to revolve around me. After Vivendi acquired Universal Pictures, it created Vivendi Universal Interactive. It seems that Blizzard Games should be a relatively core business department and is valued by their group president."

After Su Yehao finished speaking, he comforted Jiang Yu and said:

"I think it's better to spend a few hundred million dollars to develop a few online games ourselves than to spend so much money to acquire a company. Others care about the Blizzard Games brand, but I don't need the brand value. In fact, I have a game promotion platform in my hand. According to my understanding of the players, as long as the game is interesting enough, they will change their minds in minutes. Isn't it stupid to spend so much money? Today is just a waste of time. You don't need to care."

"I understand this, but I just don't like his... arrogance?"

"Ha, maybe it's because he's in the Fortune 500 and has more confidence. As far as I know, Vivendi has ruined many game companies. I'll find a headhunting company later to see if I can poach some Blizzard talents. This company's talents are more valuable than the Blizzard brand, and more importantly, they are economical. You think that old man is annoying, so it must be annoying to work under him."

Su Yehao finished speaking.

Thinking that the popularization speed of high-speed broadband is very fast, it seems that some online games can be tried to develop.

For example, *CrossFire*, *League of Legends*, and *PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds* are all long-lived games that can be continuously updated as long as they attract enough players.

Jiang Yu learned that he was actually going to poach people, and only then did she change from anger to happiness and continued, "Be sure to poach more! It's best to make him a lone commander. Also, quickly think of a few good games. He actually looks down on your game business!"

“......Don't worry, I've already thought of it. I'll start developing them when I get back later."

"Ah? So fast?"

Jiang Yu was stunned.

"Huh? Hurry up and spit a few times. You can't say 'fast' as a man."

“......”