Volume 4 Crazy Growth 2017 Chapter 815: The Sword Falls
"Can our Mihayo... do it?" Cai Haoyu's heart was pounding, but his tone was a little unsteady.
Zhou Dongsheng said firmly: "Yes! Of course!"
"From the moment I invested in Mihayo, I firmly believed that Mihayo was a game company with pioneering genes. In the bustling game market, when everyone was short-sighted and succumbed to the immediate interests..."
"But President Cai did not choose to go along with the crowd, but instead led Mihayo to resolutely embark on a road of overcoming obstacles. Now with the completion of the Honkai Impact 3rd, Mihayo obviously has the foundation for great success."
"The PUBG Mobile Game project can only be regarded as a touchstone at best. As an investor, I am confident. As the person at the helm, Mr. Cai should be more confident than me!"
Zhou Dongsheng's words did boost Cai Haoyu's confidence a little. Although as a new company, Mihayo had enough reason to be proud of its current achievements.
It’s just that everything is afraid of comparison. If it’s in front of other people, it’s okay, but if compared with Zhou Dongsheng, it’s a bit like a grain of rice competing with the bright moon.
Listening to Zhou Dongsheng's confident words, Cai Haoyu couldn't feel moved and changed the subject.
"Since Jay Chou has said so, I believe that he must have some ideas in his mind. Please give me some advice." Cai Haoyu's tone was very sincere and his attitude was very humble.
"Looking at the development of Mihoyo, it can be said that it is a step-by-step progress. The Honkai Impact 3rd Trilogy has evolved from a horizontal version of a mobile fighting game to a 3D full-view game. Mihoyo has undoubtedly achieved a breakthrough in its capabilities and self-improvement..."
"It is not difficult to see that Mr. Cai is very ambitious. He has always wanted to lead the market trend. He dared to give priority to the development of 3D mobile games when the entire mobile game market was not yet mature. He is very ambitious."
"The success of Honkai Impact 3 is undoubtedly a reward for brave explorers, and this is undoubtedly the most valuable thing about Mihayo, he is young, energetic, and sharp..."
"In that case, why don't you try to move towards creating an open world as the next step?"
After a thorough and profound introduction, Zhou Dongsheng slowly came up with the final conclusion: the Honkai Impact 3rd is just for fun, but The Origin of All Evil is undoubtedly the brilliant crystallization of Mihayo's masterpiece.
At the same time, Mihayova officially overtook others and caught up with the first echelon in the mobile game field, becoming another emerging giant in the field.
The fact that Mihayal was able to carve out a path amidst the pursuit and blockade by a number of major gaming companies is enough to prove that he is indeed quite capable.
Regardless of being ridiculed as the root of all evil or being at the bottom of the gaming contempt chain, it does not affect the success of this company at all.
To some extent, this is also the best interpretation of the saying "He who is not envied by others is a mediocre person", and Tengda is undoubtedly the best example.
"Open world?! Jay Chou is indeed a veteran gamer, and he has dabbled in a wide range of games...Although open world games have been around for a long time, it is quite challenging to bring them to the mobile game market!"
Cai Haoyu couldn't help but sigh, and then changed the subject, "But the source of motivation for us at Mihayo has always been the sense of accomplishment brought by challenging difficult projects, just like before we made "Honkai Impact 3", we knew nothing about 3D games..."
"Just like Jay Chou said, this is the reward for the brave!" Cai Haoyu smiled and suddenly everything became clear. The fog on the road in front of him was swept away and he could see the direction ahead clearly at once.
"Jay is truly a guiding light!" Cai Haoyu couldn't help but sigh.
"I am just an outsider. Perhaps that is why I can see things more clearly from the outside. Projects like this, which require huge investments, high R&D costs, high risks and not necessarily high returns, are often looked down upon by large companies..."
"After all, why go through so much trouble when you can easily make money? This has always been a common problem among domestic game manufacturers. If the top is not upright, the bottom will be crooked. However, both Mr. Cai and Mihayo have never chosen to go along with the crowd..."
"I believe in my vision. Only Mihayo can accomplish this great task!"
Zhou Dongsheng smiled and fed Cai Haoyu sweet talk. Today's Zhou Dongsheng is completely different from the past. His words are not only weighty but also convincing.
After all, Zhou Dongsheng relied on his unique investment vision and grassroots capital to carve out a path in the capital market and become a highly-anticipated new capital upstart.
"Mr. Jay, you're being too polite, but what you said today still gave me a lot of inspiration. I want to try this challenging goal," Cai Haoyu said seriously.
"I knew I was right about him. Mr. Cai is indeed a brave man." Zhou Dongsheng gave a thumbs up and praised without any surprise, and then continued.
"By the way, speaking of open worlds, Mr. Cai should give The Zelda, which Nintendo just released not long ago, a good game for him to play. Maybe he can get some inspiration from it."
"After all, in the field of gaming, there is no order of precedence, and those who are successful are the first. Just like the battle royale game theme has a long history, and there are masterpieces like "H1Z1" before it. Even so, it does not affect the fact that "PUBG" is better than its predecessor..."
Zhou Dongsheng said patiently, "I'll have someone send a batch of Nintendo handheld game consoles over. This will allow the technical staff of the company to learn from their advanced experience..."
Cai Haoyu nodded and agreed without any hesitation. "Then I would like to thank Mr. Jay for his kindness. While we are working on the PUBG mobile game project, we can first think about how to start this open world project..."
"Hey, why should you be polite to me? We are all in the same boat. If Mihayo can really accomplish such a great thing, it will be a great honor for me!"
Zhou Dongsheng smiled and he and Cai Haoyu exchanged a smile. Everything was said without words.
Afterwards, the group had a simple meal, which brought this simple meeting to a successful conclusion.
After finishing this small matter of helping Mihayo open the Origin of All Evil, Zhou Dongsheng originally wanted to take some time to stroll around Pinxixi and chat with Huang Zheng.
However, at the beginning of 2017, Pinduoduo, which had completely implemented its business model, became unstoppable. Its development speed was like riding a rocket, advancing by leaps and bounds.
Especially at the end of last year, after exclusively sponsoring the Golden Second Awards ceremony, it reached a deep strategic partnership with TikTok!
As the two companies are both entrepreneurial pioneers with a user base of over 100 million, the synergy they have achieved by forming an alliance of sharing their resources will naturally far exceed the scope of 1+1.
After all, as latecomers in their respective fields, both companies are facing the situation of having tigers and leopards in front and jackals behind, and there is no direct conflict of interest between them, so they can naturally cooperate more unreservedly.
In addition, with Zhou Dongsheng, a co-investor, as the middleman to endorse the project, the cooperation can proceed more smoothly.
Therefore, after tasting the sweetness of cooperation, the two parties hit it off immediately, and the algorithm development project previously proposed by Zhou Dongsheng was launched without stopping. Both parties performed their respective duties and worked together.
For a time, the development speed of both sides experienced a qualitative improvement, and both Huang Zheng and Yang Luyu were naturally busy around the clock.
Obviously, not everyone can be as content as Zhou Dongsheng to be a hands-off boss. Especially for entrepreneurs, only by trying their best can they firmly grasp this fleeting opportunity.
It is worth mentioning that after this wave of accumulation, it also relied on its sudden rise in the field of mobile e-commerce to successfully win the first place in the mobile e-commerce software rankings for the first time!
In order to keep Pinduoduo's battleship sailing through the waves, Huang Zheng, the helmsman, is naturally very busy, except for occasionally sending some results on his mobile phone to show off to Zhou Dongsheng, the investor.
Naturally, he was extremely busy and had no time to pay attention to Zhou Dongsheng. Zhou Dongsheng was really amazed by his desperate attitude.
It turns out that those who achieve great things must have their own strengths.
As an investor who has benefited from the fruits of his labor, Zhou Dongsheng naturally had no reason to stop Huang Zheng from working hard. Instead, he expressed his condolences with great satisfaction.
Of course, Huang Zheng didn't give him a good look and gave him a blunt word.
For this reason, Zhou Dongsheng naturally did not hold grudges against small people and did not take them to heart as they had worked hard and made great contributions.
In addition, after reaching this wave of strategic cooperation, Douyin short video has stabilized its position. Although Toutiao is coming in with great momentum, it can only jump around in its own small piece of land for the time being.
If you want to compete with the Douyin short video that has taken the lead and is gradually gaining momentum, it is obviously still a long way to go , especially since Douyin short video still has the content advantage in the overseas market...
With the support of two Golden Second Awards, Douyin has put a lot of effort into content cultivation. Taking the lead, Douyin short video has begun to form a self-contained platform orientation and has a solid user base.
Under the preconceived notions of users, although Toutiao launched an invincible money offensive, trying to use money to pave a path to success...
However, today, under Zhou Dongsheng's series of operations, the difficulty has obviously increased countless times. To acquire it by relying solely on money is obviously no longer a matter that can be solved with just 1 billion US dollars.
After all, after completing the last round of financing, Wenxue Network's market value has exceeded 4 billion US dollars. Although it cannot be compared with Toutiao's market value of 10 billion US dollars, there is no doubt that it has the ability to compete.
What's more, Wenxue Network now has the support of many old-brand capitals, so its confidence is not necessarily inferior to Toutiao.
After all, today's Toutiao is not yet the internet unicorn that will be famous all over the world in the future and have a market value of hundreds of billions of US dollars before it goes public.
Even though it already has its own moat, its depth and breadth are obviously not yet deep enough to keep away gods and ghosts.
Sooner or later, the two sides will have to fight a tough battle in the field of short videos!
Zhou Dongsheng couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He had unknowingly expanded his business. The strategic depth spanned several fields, but they complemented each other...
Zhou Dongsheng really couldn't help but look forward to the future. Once everything was connected together, how brilliant and dazzling would it be?
The fantasy of making up my own head seems to be becoming a reality little by little!
As his heart was surging, a line of poetry suddenly flashed through Zhou Dongsheng's mind, "Wait until autumn comes on September 8th, when my flowers bloom, all other flowers will die"!
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Zhou Dongsheng couldn't help but be shocked by his own arrogance, but after thinking about it, he felt that it didn't seem too much...
"After all, can you be called a young man if you are not full of energy?" Zhou Dongsheng muttered and couldn't help but smile knowingly. Hehe, with the harmony of their personalities, Zhou Dongsheng felt that it was not bad to occasionally "let go of the youthful passion of an old man".
Two flowers bloom, each showing its own beauty, and now it’s back to Dongsheng Investment.
As Dongsheng Investment almost made it clear that it was optimistic about BYD and entered the market aggressively to grab shares, it naturally caused a number of market makers entrenched here to join forces and try to force Dongsheng Investment to retreat.
After all, there are only so many chips. If one more company comes to get a piece of the pie, doesn't it mean that you will have one less piece in your bowl?
Therefore, several of these institutions worked together tacitly to dump the market. No matter how big Dongsheng Investment's appetite was, it was impossible for it to take it all. If it could be starved to death, that would naturally be the best.
However, they seemed to overestimate themselves and underestimate the determination of Dongsheng Investment.
The market was once hit by a deep pit, and then it went through a wave of market conditions that were like the sky and the ground. A green K-line was covered with dark clouds, and it was almost pressed on the limit down board by a large number of sell orders.
For a time, many retail investors who did not know the reason were frightened and blindly followed suit in selling. There were more than 100,000 sell orders on the market, and the stock price once hit a low of 46.57 yuan.
And then... nothing happened.
With Zhou Dongsheng's instructions, Zhang Xiaoguang had abundant funds in his hands. He started with funds for a small goal , which showed that he was wealthy. The only thing he needed to do was to buy, buy, and buy!
Seeing so many institutions joining forces to form a dragon gate formation, Zhang Xiaoguang couldn't help but touch his head. Is there such a good thing?
So, at the command, the trader took action and Dongsheng Investment directly took A and completed the transaction of 10,000 buy orders in an instant.
With such ease, he accomplished this feat that earned him the title of "Brother Ten Thousand Hands" by countless retail investors.
However, a mere 10,000 buy orders only amount to 1 million shares, which can barely create a little ripple on BYD's huge market.
After all, the transaction was completed at a low price of nearly 46 yuan, which was only more than 46 million yuan in funds. For Dongsheng Investment, which started with a small target fund, it barely filled less than half of the space.
Therefore, Dongsheng Investment placed tens of thousands of buy orders without blinking an eye, ready to seize the opportunity and fire all the bullets in its hands in one go!
