Chapter 103 You can invest, but do me a favor!
When Jin Zhengzhou asked someone to find out, he found out that the boss behind Comet Capital was actually the son-in-law of Li Jianxi, the chairman of Five Star Group. Jin Zhengzhou was even more determined to cooperate with Comet Capital!
As long as he can get financial support from Comet Capital, he will be able to lead Nexon out of its current predicament and even continue to promote and sell their new games in the United States, directly earning more valuable US dollars!
Moreover, Zhang Junfeng has such a powerful background and is backed by the Five Star Group. If he can get their investment, it would be considered as climbing up the ladder of the Goryeo chaebol in disguise. He would also be able to obtain a lot of conveniences when running a company in Goryeo in the future. It is simply killing two birds with one stone!
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After asking his subordinates to call back immediately to welcome the other party, Jin Zhengzhou asked his subordinates to notify all the employees on duty in the company that an investor would come to discuss business in the afternoon, and they must not let down their team and leave a bad impression on the other party.
When these programmers who had been immersed in research and development but suffering from lack of funds heard that someone was willing to invest in their company, they all showed excitement on their faces.
You have to know that they just had a meeting last week. Because the release schedule of the new game coincided with the financial crisis, which led to a sales Waterloo, their R&D funds and salaries will be affected to varying degrees, and the development of the new game may also face the risk of suspension.
If they could get support from financial backers, they might be able to develop even better games, thus continuing the glorious record of "Kingdom of Winds" and even competing with the big game companies in the United States.
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At 1:00 p.m., as Kim Jung-joo and several Nexon executives waited eagerly, Zhang Junfeng and Wu Mingxi arrived at the company lobby accompanied by bodyguards.
Jin Zhengzhou warmly welcomed Zhang Junfeng and others into the conference room that had already been arranged, looking forward to the subsequent negotiations.
However, when Wu Mingxi proposed that Comet Capital was willing to invest 3 million US dollars but take 55% of the company's shares, Jin Zhengzhou hesitated. In his opinion, he worked hard to create this company in the hope that he could earn enough wealth through his expertise and step into the upper class.
But once I agree to the other party's investment request, wouldn't it be like "selling the company at a low price" in advance? And I would also go from being a boss to an employee, which is a bit hard to accept!
While Jin Zhengzhou was still struggling with his conscience, Zhang Junfeng suggested, "The success of a game company depends not only on developing a large number of excellent works, but also on the support of a large amount of funds and channels. And Comet Capital happens to have these two conditions!"
"Of course, President Jin can rest assured. Comet Capital is a professional investment institution and will not be involved in the normal operation and management of the company. So after you get the shares, you will still be the president of Nexcon. There will be no change in this!"
"The future prospects of the gaming industry are broad, but the competition will also become increasingly fierce. If you want to stand out from the crowd of competitors and get the biggest piece of the pie, win-win cooperation is the best choice."
"If President Kim agrees to this investment plan, I will have KB Bank provide Nexon with an additional low-interest loan of 2 million US dollars as the company's development funds. This money is enough for Nexon to operate normally and develop many new games!"
Hearing that the olive branch thrown by Zhang Junfeng was so "tempting", Jin Zhengzhou, who was still hesitating, could no longer sit still. He had been running around for so many days, but he had never seen any company that could offer such generous conditions. Even if Zhang Junfeng asked for a little more shares, it was not unacceptable!
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Seeing that the investment had been finalized, Zhang Junfeng smiled and started chatting with the other party. In addition to discussing game development and sales with the other party, Zhang Junfeng also did not forget some "personal goods", and the topic of the chat was unknowingly led to the instant messaging software.
Jin Zhengzhou, who often communicated with the American branch, had naturally heard about this news. In the middle of last year, an instant messaging software called ICQ came out in the United States and gained millions of users in just a few months, becoming the world's largest instant messaging software and causing quite a stir in the industry.
Today, the number of ICQ users continues to increase at a rate of nearly 1 million per month, and the valuation of ICQ, an instant messaging software, has also risen sharply in a short period of time. Zhang Junfeng is also quite envious of this, but it is obviously impossible for him to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy such a communication software with incomplete functions at this time.
(Note: A few months later, ICQ will be acquired by Time Warner subsidiary of the United States for a whopping $287 million.) …
After seeing that Jin Zhengzhou knew something about ICQ, Zhang Junfeng proposed his plan to let Nexcon refer to this ICQ instant messaging software. He hoped that Nexcon could produce a similar product with similar functions within 4-5 months, apply for patents in Asian countries and even European countries before ICQ, and put it online in Korea and overseas.
In order to increase their enthusiasm for research and development, Zhang Junfeng even promised that as long as the same instant messaging software could be completed on schedule and successfully obtain the patent copyright, he would give Nexcon an additional reward of 500,000 US dollars. This news also surprised Jin Zhengzhou.
In Jin Zhengzhou's opinion, the technical content of ICQ instant messaging software is not very high. They only need to get the installation program of ICQ software, and they can quickly deduce the relevant code and copy it. Then they can make the same type of instant messaging software by optimizing and improving it.
But this big money sponsor is willing to offer such a high "bounty" for such a "little thing", even more than what they earned from selling games before. Isn't it too exaggerated?
However, since this tyrannical big money sponsor had made a request, Jin Zhengzhou, who was eager to make money, naturally had no reason to refuse and agreed readily.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
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On the way back, Zhang Junfeng looked at the signed share transfer agreement in his hand with a smug look on his face. Being able to get his own instant messaging software in advance at a cost of only a few million dollars, this deal was a great profit!
After the instant messaging software is successfully developed, Zhang Junfeng can replicate the classic strategy of Tencent's previous operation of "Little Penguin", bringing millions or even tens of millions of loyal users and considerable profits to the company.
However, Wu Mingxi, who was standing by, was still confused when he saw Zhang Junfeng still immersed in joy. He could not understand Zhang Junfeng's plan at all. In his opinion, this time, they had made a big fuss but only won a small-scale game company. Why did the boss look more excited than when he won the management rights of Hanjin Shipping? ! (End of this chapter)