American Fortune Life

"Boss, we just won the British royal family, they have agreed to officially enter the INS..."

Andy, who had just finished the video conference with the London Finance Branch, drank coffee and took a break, received a call from the INS headquarters. As soon as the call was connected, he heard his subordinates report in a very excited voice.

Andy raised his eyebrows slightly. Although he didn't care about having an extra so-called 'Royal INS' account, after all, this was the result of his subordinates' hard work in public relations, which paved the way for the promotion of INS in Europe. A milestone sign.

"Boss, this "Royal Twitter" account will be used by the network team of Buckingham Palace and Clarence Palace in the UK. It has been opened for 15 minutes and the account has attracted more than 2,000 followers."

"Hehe, you have done a good job. Keep up the good work. You can continue public relations in this step. It is best to let the queen open a private account." Andy encouraged with a chuckle.

"..." After a brief silence on the other end of the phone, he hurriedly responded, "Good boss."

Andy shook his head and hung up the phone with a smile. Since he disclosed his phone numbers to all employees of several companies under his control, this is one of the few good news he has received.

In fact, since the INS interview, Andy has used his influence to attract many celebrities to join the INS family. With the gradual success of INS, he has attracted many other celebrities to open accounts.

According to market research agencies, as of May this year, INS is expected to have 176 million users worldwide, an increase of more than 26 times over the same period last year.

Of course, the current INS is still in the stage of promoting and seizing the market, and it is burning a lot of money. Originally, Andy had a plan to throw it out for A-round financing, but at this stage, after all, it belongs to the bottoming period of the financial crisis. While cautiously waiting for a rebound, no matter in terms of company valuation or financing funds, it is impossible to maximize the benefits.

However, the large amount of water injection in the US dollar continues to depreciate. It is really a bit of a loss to raise funds now. Therefore, he can only continue to burn out of his own pocket for a period of time. When the traffic data reaches a certain value, he only needs to come up with a traffic realization plan. You can flicker to a very considerable amount of funds, but whether it is the INS company or himself, you can make a lot of money, add zero or two zeros to the money you burned before and get it back.

The video conference with the Mockingjay Game Company went very smoothly and was very short. Now the Mockingjay Game Company does not need him to devote too much time and energy to pay attention to it all the time. In addition to understanding the development and operation of each game in this video conference The situation is about the construction progress of the new company headquarters.

Of course, I also received good news. The "Penguin Farm" launched in cooperation with Penguin has officially become popular all over the world, with an average of 30 million people online at the same time every day, joining the army of stealing vegetables.

The phrase "Have you stolen food?" is becoming the most frequently talked about topic among Chinese netizens and even people in real life. From elementary school students aged seven or eight, to young white-collar workers in their twenties, to middle-aged and elderly people who have passed their fateful years. . . The popularity of penguin farms today is an indisputable fact.

The most attractive thing about the game is "stealing food". When the fruit in a friend's garden is ripe, enter his garden to steal vegetables, and the score will also be upgraded. You steal from me, I steal from you, hundreds of millions of netizens, hundreds of millions of farmers, stealing a mess.

I don't know how many people set their alarm clocks and wake up early in the morning to "harvest vegetables" in their fields, and then go to friends' houses to steal a few handfuls of expensive "crops" such as caterpillar fungus and ginseng.

In the middle of the night, I don’t hesitate to "grow vegetables" online while drowsy. . . . . .

Although it is not like World of Warcraft, another online game that is very popular among Chinese netizens, you need to use RNB to buy point cards to play the game, but playing for free does not mean that Penguin Farm is "spending money to earn money".

In fact, it is the low threshold of Penguin Farm's free game that attracts thousands of players, and with these thousands of players, there are owners who are willing to spend money for the farm. why?

"If you want to play better than others, you have to spend more money on props."

Penguin members are 10 yuan per month, and yellow diamonds are 10 yuan per month. Although QQ Farm does not charge, the money spent is not less than playing paid large-scale online games. Fertilizers and dog food must be purchased with penguin coins, so that the food will not be stolen.

Because the cooperation with Penguins is exclusive, Penguin Farm can bring Penguins up to a monthly income!

Of course, half of the profits belong to the Mockingjay Game Company, with a monthly income of 3.67 million US dollars, which can be called a gold-absorbing monster!

"Ha ha ha ha..."

Andy's happy laughter echoed in the office. Unlike the previous life, in order to prevent copycat games from some companies in China, Mockingjay Game Company cooperated with Penguin to strictly control the appearance of copycat games very early on. Once a similar game appears in On other social platforms, they will react immediately and take the other party to court. Even Kaixin, which is invested by Andy's Fengyun Capital, will not be spared, thus preventing this game from being shunted away by other platforms from the very beginning. player.

In this way, the life cycle of Penguin Farm will also be greatly extended. After all, there are no online games that last forever, let alone this simple social game.

Andy, who was in a beautiful mood, took a small assistant and boarded a helicopter to go to David Stern's appointment. Andy was not ignorant of the reason for David Stern's invitation.

Since this period of time, David Stern has been briefing through the media, hoping that the alliance can formulate a plan to restore the rate of return, and the labor and management will conduct the first negotiation on August 4, and the two sides will discuss the issue of the labor agreement.

Because of the economic crisis, half of the league's 30 teams are losing money, and there are not many teams that don't lose money, only 10 teams. With the severe impact of the financial crisis, it is expected that the ticket revenue of many teams next season will be reduced by 10%, and the team's total revenue will also be reduced by 5% because of the reduction of corporate sponsorship.

Stern said he needs to "find a system" to increase the team's profitability, um, what is it? Stern's motivation is simple, Stern is trying to hope that the players will get less salary in the following season.

Seemingly inconsistent, on the one hand, Stern said that the league is in its golden age, and on the other hand, he asked the players to cut their salaries. According to the current labor agreement, the players will get 57% of the club's income, but now the economic downturn , The salaries of the players remain unchanged, which causes serious losses to the team owners, and what David Stern is doing now is to seek greater benefits for the team owners.

As the owner of the Rockets, Andy naturally supports this kind of thing with both hands. Although he has never been stingy with luxury taxes, he also wants to build a giant team, so he has received the greatest success. When it comes to the coveted championship, but first of all, he is a businessman. A businessman exists to make money and profit. To save costs and obtain more benefits, this is what a successful businessman must insist on.

"boom!"

In the golf driving range, after Andy swung a golf ball into the air, he smiled and looked at David Stern, who stepped forward to replace him, and said: "It is true that the team is in an unstable economy. Owners are having issues with ticket sales, and change is needed if the NBA is to avoid moving forward with the end of the season, as the Continental Basketball Association did by two months."

The financial crisis has sent the NBA into its worst recession in decades, but how many teams have lost millions of dollars by signing a bad contract, and how many people are like James Dolan of the Knicks? "

Seeing Andy's handsome young face, David Stern complained wildly in his heart. He didn't expect Andy, the initiator of gold dollar basketball, to have the nerve to tease Dolan of the Knicks!

Well, the Knicks are indeed a model of how many people are stupid with money, and you Andy Smith have indeed achieved great results in gold dollar basketball, but it is also your spoiler that has caused the value of NBA All-Star players to rise sharply. . .

"It is true that from now on, the players are not in a hurry to sign a new labor agreement, but we will not want to see the suspension of the league caused by the NBA labor dispute in 1999 to happen again.

So I have appointed 10 people to form the Labor Bargaining Committee. This team will negotiate with the player representatives for the first time on August 4th, and the two sides will discuss the issue of the NBA labor agreement.

Both parties must make compromises, otherwise the NBA will really be so poor that only stars are left! "

"Haha, David, you are so humorous." Hearing David Stern's complaints, Andy couldn't help laughing. After laughing, Andy also said helplessly: "Anyway, our Rockets have thought of all the ways we can think of. It's really all kinds of promotions together. I hope the ball market will be better. The only thing is that our cheerleaders only wear The socks are dancing!"

"puff--"

Stern almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.