NOVEL NEXT Chapter 122
Time passed, and it was noon the next day in a blink of an eye.
Looking at Lily Collins, who was radiant and full of femininity, Su Chengyang smiled indifferently, but he felt in his heart that this woman was really made of water.
After a night, it was as if nothing had happened.
The two were a little hungry, so they ate a little in the hotel restaurant. After filling their stomachs, they returned to the room to continue.
It was like a long time since they last saw each other. It was inevitable that they missed each other for more than half a year. Facing Lily Collins’ provocation, Su Chengyang quickly let her know where the word”dad” came from.
It was three o’clock in the afternoon.
Su Chengyang took a deep breath and lay down on the sofa.
“”Buzz buzz”
At this time, his cell phone rang.
Su Chengyang stood up and picked up the phone to check.
It was Pierre calling.
He clicked the connect button.
“Boss, I’m in San Francisco”
“Really? Then come to the hotel.”
Then, Su Chengyang told Pierre the address of the hotel.
About an hour later
, there was a”knock knock” sound from the door of the room. Su Chengyang got up and walked over to open the door.
“Hi, boss, nice to see you.”
As soon as they met, Pierre gave him a hug.
“Hey, what’s that smell?”
Sniffing the air, Pierre suddenly winked.
Su Chengyang shrugged and sat on the sofa:”The company has moved to California, how are the employees feeling?”
“Fortunately, except for a few people, most people are willing to come to San Francisco.”
“In fact, it’s all thanks to the salary increase plan you proposed, otherwise, they wouldn’t be so determined.”Pierre said with a smile.
In order to get the employees of Spark Source Computer to come to California, Su Chengyang proposed that as long as they were willing to work in California, their salary would increase by 20%, and all employees would be provided with a one-year housing subsidy.
So far, the effect is quite good.
“How about the funds in the company’s account?”
“Fortunately, according to the current situation, I can still pay half a year’s salary. However, the cost of renting an office building in California may be a little short.”
After going to Yanjing, Pierre had a deeper understanding of his boss’s strength.
“So, I will let Oasis Capital inject another 100 million US dollars into the company, use the company’s funds to rent an office building first, and then buy a building when the time is right.”
Su Chengyang thought for a while and said.
Unlike other companies, the operating system developed by Huozhanyuan has become a non-profit organization under Su Chengyang’s free open source, but to support a development team of more than 400 to 500 people, or in the United States, the salary expenses will cost 50 to 60 million US dollars a year.
Fortunately, Su Chengyang is rich and has a good foundation.
With the support of the cash cow of games, there is no big problem for the time being.
After talking for a while, Pierre left.
September 16.
Su Ma rushed over from Texas. At the same time, Jeff Wilcox, Jim Keller, and Johnny Srouji also officially resigned from the fruit company and rented two floors of an office building in southern San Francisco, with an area of about 1,000 square meters, as a temporary office location. The next-door neighbor is Spark Source Computer Company.
The two companies are together, which is also convenient for Su Chengyang to come next time.
Two days later.
200 million US dollars were allocated from Oasis (USA) Company and injected into the two companies respectively.
For Raiden Technology, 100 million US dollars is definitely not enough, but it can be used now.
Fortunately, Oasis had not acquired before. Marvel, otherwise, Oasis US company might have no money in its account.
At present, Su Chengyang’s two companies in the United States have successively invested in dozens of start-ups, most of which are angel investments, or participate in A round of financing, such as participating in the US group buying website Gaopeng.
com.
This company has been valued at 4 billion US dollars, and it was the offer given by Google.
Su Chengyang has already instructed the heads of the two investment companies that when the valuation reaches 6 billion US dollars, they will cash out and leave.
If you don’t leave at a high position, you will not be able to leave in the future. After dealing with Su Ma, Jeff Wilcox and others, Su Chengyang’s trip to the United States this time can be considered a success. More.
So, in the next few days, he took Lily Collins to surf during the day, ride a yacht, and play poker in the hotel at night. He had a very comfortable life. As for Liu Tianxian, Su Chengyang did not forget about her.
Every time Liu Tianxian took the initiative to find him, and then Su Chengyang chatted with her for twenty or thirty minutes, and ended the chat because of various things, which made Liu Tianxian feel neither happy nor unhappy. Every time they chatted heatedly, he would run away. Moreover, Su Chengyang never took the initiative to find her, which made Liu Tianxian a little worried and doubtful of her own charm.
It is said that people will be agitated when they cannot get them.
Now, this is the situation with Liu Tianxian.
Every time Su Chengyang teases her, then and ran away.
As time went by, Liu Tianxian’s confidence collapsed, and her mother urged her not to miss the opportunity, otherwise, when Su Chengyang returned to the mainland, there would be so many vixen and it would be difficult to contact them again.
On this day.
Lily Collins was going back to Los Angeles.
Her mother had secured a role for her at Disney, and she had to go back in a hurry to participate in the casting.
Su Chengyang wanted to go to Los Angeles together, but then he thought about it and gave up the idea. He couldn’t go together, otherwise when he got to Los Angeles, how could he tease Liu Tianxian.
Before leaving, the two reluctantly fought again, and Lily Collins was defeated again.
“Baby, remember to think of me〃～ 〃～ ！”
At the airport, Su Chengyang hugged Lily Collins and said some earthy love words
“Dear, when I’m done with this period of time, I’ll go to Longguo to see you.”
Lily Collins stood on tiptoe, kissed Su Chengyang on the face, and said with a smile
“good~~”
“When the time comes, call me in advance so that I can arrange time to pick you up at the airport.”
Su Chengyang said with a smile.
If Lily Collins really came to Longguo, he would remember an Internet slang, called”a thousand-mile send”.
“good~~”
Lily Collins nodded, kissed Su Chengyang again, and waved.
After watching him leave and checking in,
Su Chengyang stayed at the airport for half an hour before taking his people into the airport and boarding another flight to Los Angeles. Los Angeles
Airport.
Su Chengyang got off the plane
“Boss!”
The person who came to greet him was none other than Brandon Baker, one of the heads of Riot Games.
“Baker, long time no see, I’m so glad to see you.”
Su Chengyang hugged him and said hello to Baker with a smile.
“What about Mark Merrill?”
“He is in charge of the new version development.” Brandon Baker said with a smile.
Su Chengyang was surprised:”New version?”
Brandon Baker nodded and said:”Yes, a version update was recently launched, which improved the ranking competition mechanism and added two new heroes and more than a dozen skins.”
“Let’s go, boss, let’s go to the company first.”
“”Okay.”
The group got into three cars.
Half an hour later, they arrived at Riot Games.
They moved to a new location, leaving the old building and moving to a newly renovated office building.
Led by Brandon Baker, Su Chengyang took a tour.
There were no major changes, the staff was about the same, but the office environment was much better.
Afterwards, Su Chengyang met Mark Merrill, who was in charge of development business, and the three of them chatted in the office.
“¨‖ ¨‖ Now, what is the situation on the US server?”
After drinking a glass of water to moisten his throat, Su Chengyang asked about the situation of League of Legends on the US server!
“Fortunately~~ It’s not as good as the Dragon Kingdom server. Currently, the daily active players on the US server are about 400,000”
“So few?”
Su Chengyang was surprised.
You know, at this moment, the number of League of Legends players in China has exceeded 3.6 million, of which daily active players have stabilized at around 1.6 million.
There are only 400,000 players in the US server.
In other words, the difference is more than 4 times.
Brandon Baker explained:”It’s mainly a problem of promotion and marketing. The players in the US are mainly family gamers….”
Su Chengyang thought about it and it was true.
League of Legends was able to gain 1.
6 million daily active users on the Chinese server after only four months of service launch.
A big reason for this was that Shanhai Games was willing to spend money on promotion, with coverage on several major online gaming media websites and offline promotion in Internet cafes.
The national conditions are different.
As for players on the US server, the average income in the United States is high, and the economic conditions are good.
Most of them have personal computers, but Internet cafes are rare.
In this way, it is impossible to do ground promotion.
In addition, it is not difficult to understand why console games, PC games, and other games are trying to get a piece of the pie.
However, in general, the US server has been in public beta for more than four months, and it is not bad to have 400,000 daily active users. If it continues to develop in this way, it will only take a few months for the US server to break through one million.
“How are the Korean, Western, Eastern, and Samba servers?��”
These servers were launched in June, one month after the public beta of the Chinese and North American servers of League of Legends.
Like the Chinese servers, except for the North American servers which are operated by Riot itself, the other servers are operated in cooperation with local agencies.
“Except for the Korean server, the number of people on other servers currently ranges from 200,000 to 300,000!”
“The situation on the Korean server is the best.
Currently, the number of active users has exceeded 600,000, and it is growing rapidly.
It is expected that the number of daily active users will exceed one million in November.
“Su Chengyang nodded.
The Korean server did not surprise him.
In his previous life, the population of the Korean server was not large.
It was already terrifying to be able to contribute 5 million monthly active users during the peak period of lol.
This means that one-tenth of the more than 50 million South Koreans are playing League of Legends.
The proportion is more than that of the national server.
It can be seen that terminal games are still relatively popular in South Korea. It is a world of difference from the island country separated by a sea.
It is not surprising that the Japanese server is not popular, because the island country is dominated by console games. Computer games are not popular in the island country.