After solving my mother's ideological problem, the next thing is very simple.

Lu Hao asked the property management to see if there were any villas for sale in the community. His requirement was that the distance should not be too close, but not too far either.

It's the kind of thing where you can bring the soup over so it doesn't get cold, but it still takes a short distance to walk over.

Things like conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are actually mostly caused by the sense of space. Only when they live together will there be trivial conflicts, but if they live farther away, there will be no problems.

With the money in place, it was naturally easy to find a house, and one was found quickly. The previous owner was in a hurry to immigrate abroad, so the transfer procedures were completed quickly.

The house was fully furnished and we moved in right away.

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After settling the family affairs, the first round of financing for Meng Video was completed after bidding on the day of the cocktail party and several subsequent rounds of negotiations.

The result was exactly as Lu Hao designed.

Even slightly beyond.

Originally, Lu Hao planned to raise about 600 million US dollars for a 20% stake, with 500 million being his psychological bottom line. However, through a bidding model, he finally raised nearly 800 million US dollars in total.

The average price of one percent of the shares is as high as 40 million US dollars.

This number cannot be said to be the highest among start-up companies, but it is also quite high. At least it has far exceeded the "unicorn" level companies and has reached the level that can be called "future aircraft carriers."

Based on this level of financing, Dream Video’s current valuation is as high as 4 billion US dollars!

However, it is indeed worth the price.

As the king of the domestic short video track, it has nearly 250 million users, and this number is still growing rapidly.

Data on average user market, retention rate, and other aspects are also extremely impressive.

This can definitely be considered a national software.

The disclosure of financing information naturally attracted a lot of reports.

This is the largest investment project in China since the beginning of the year with the largest amount of financing and the largest scale. It has attracted great attention and is seen by many investors and start-ups as a sign that the capital winter this year is beginning to end.

After receiving so much money, Meng Video entered the next round of expansion and began to frantically expand its territory in the field of video copyright.

The development strategy formulated by Ma Fangzhou is extremely clear.

Meng Video has never been involved in film and television production, which is the cake of traditional film and television companies. It only needs copyright and broadcasting rights, as long as it does not require exclusive copyright, as long as the platform is allowed to use it.

In addition to domestic copyrights, foreign purchasing teams were also quickly established, targeting various American and British dramas, animations, and using them for traffic generation.

In addition, various secondary production and dubbing marketing activities have been launched within the platform to maintain user stickiness to the greatest extent possible and provide more diverse gameplay.

For several online video giants, this is simply a transfer of power. They are anxious about the continuous loss of users and want to switch platforms, but they are helpless.

In a sense, the impact of short videos on long videos is also a dimensionality reduction attack.

Moreover, the movies and TV series that Dream Video has obtained the copyright for are currently all free to play, without any interstitial ads, and the user experience is top-notch.

If you have money, you will naturally be willful.

Of course, seeing the rise of Dream Video, many short video companies also followed suit, either adding similar businesses or rebuilding platforms, hoping to get a share of this market with huge potential.

But it is still in its infancy and will not have any impact on Dream Video for the time being.

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Dream Video has developed to this stage, and Lu Hao basically doesn't need to worry about it. The trend has been set, and the next step is to continue moving forward with inertia at high speed.

As for the same track, the company opened by Jiang Qianfan in the United States is also currently developing by leaps and bounds.

The company is called Futurefilm, abbreviated as FF, and its ambition can be seen from the name.

There is no public information on the market showing how far the company has expanded. Judging from the public download volume from major application markets alone, the number of users has reached five million.

Moreover, you should know that they not only sell software, but also hardware VR home theater equipment.

If the conversion rate is high enough, it would probably have entered a state of positive profitability by now.

However, the national conditions are different. Dream Video has no way to develop hardware on a large scale. After all, consumption habits have not yet been cultivated, and only a very small proportion of people are willing to spend thousands of dollars to buy a home theater.

After Lu Hao asked Ma Fangzhou to keep an eye on the development of FF Company, he no longer paid much attention to this matter.

The most important thing for me right now is to make the next movie.

The sequel to "The Swordsman".

During the previous meeting, Lu Hao had already proposed filming "The Mermaid", which had started long before the New Year. He was also preparing to film "Iron Man" as an attempt at a different style.

But, in a sense...

If Aura Resurgence is a complete movie universe, these two can only be regarded as extras or side stories.

It has almost no impact on the main storyline.

The biggest contribution is just the creation of two character IPs.

This is also an old routine of the film series.

Each classic character will be brought out first, and then their roles will be added or deleted as appropriate based on their popularity in audience votes.

In short, it's all routine.

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