Conan: Developing business in Kexue World

Chapter 21 Current Situation of Future Group
The sale of the game helmet is mainly through the channel of 7-11.

This is an expedient move. In the future, the game will not have time to build channels little by little. It must be the first to release VR games before Syndra's "Cocoon" comes out. After all, history will only remember the first, and who cares about the second.

With the large amount of cash brought in by helmet sales, future games can finally build their own channels little by little.

In the commercial society, the economic situation is changing rapidly.Although we will still rely on 7-11 in the future, there are two concepts of having our own channels and not using them at all.

The current situation of the future group is like this.

The first is the video company, the website Niconico, referred to as N station.A round of financing has been completed, and branches have been established in major cities of Neon. Now it is in the expansion stage, burning money, and has not yet made a profit.The first financing of 2000 million U.S. dollars was mainly used to purchase film and television animation copyrights, old local TV series and old movies in Neon, all at once.Some classic TV series and movies abroad are also included.

At the same time, Station N began to invest in new programs and purchase some new dramas.As the industry of Yoshida Ami, Risheng Animation has developed vigorously after the economic bubble crisis with the help of Doraemon. Now it is a head animation company, and this time it also allocated some investment shares.

Under various measures, as of the end of August, the paid members of station N reached 8 million.

In addition, Future Video Company has also started to invest in some Two-dimensional game companies. Unfortunately, there is no TYPEMOON in this world, otherwise Kenta would spend all his money to invest in him.You must know that Station B was listed in one fell swoop by relying on the game business, and the biggest head among them is FGO, a derivative of the Xingyue Fate series.

With various expenditures, there was not much left in the A-round financing, but it got 2500 million users, 1500 million registered users, 100 million paid users, 800 million daily active users, and 2000 million monthly active users.Everything is going well in the future, and the B round of financing is on the agenda.

Next, it is the case of the social software Line.

On the eve of the press conference, Line was only tested in a small area in Tokyo, with very few user registrations, and it was basically spread through word of mouth.However, because of the good user experience, office workers, high school students, and college students in Tokyo are all covered. Basically, it can be called a viral spread. If one person knows it, a group of people around him will basically use it.

After the press conference, the official website will simultaneously update the domestic version of Line and the international version of Line.The number of users has increased sharply, because of the interoperability with N station accounts, N station users are naturally Line users.

There are downsides to the user surge, though. Line's server scale can't keep up.

Unlike Station N, which can reduce operating pressure by renting servers, Line cannot.

Because in the later stage, Line will deploy electronic payment.Personal data security, account fund security, etc. are all very important and cannot be left in the hands of others.

Funding for Line's development came primarily from the Yoshida family.Most of the royalties from his father's comics are invested in the development of Line, and only a small part is retained for real estate investment, which he is passionate about. He has not yet learned the lesson of the economic bubble crisis.50% of the mother's dividends from Sunrise Animation and the profits from Sakura Clothing are invested in Line operations.They are regarded as Line's angel round investment.

With the amazing appearance of this press conference, Line has also reached the development stage of receiving A-round financing.

Finally, there is the situation of future game companies.

Most of the future game company's funds come from Suzuki Sonoko. Kenta has been fooling Sonoko, and successfully got her to take out all the private money.As expected of the second lady of the Suzuki Consortium, her private money can be compared with that of the Yoshida family, and she has maintained the daily development expenditure of the game until the game is released.

But it can't be said to be cheating.It has to be said that the game industry is really a cash cow.The investment in the early stage was earned back only by the release of the first batch of game helmets.The game company is also the only company in Future Group that can achieve self-sufficiency without going public to raise funds.

Now Sword Art Online is still under development, because Aincrad is still an empty shell above 50 floors.

Part of this batch of cash will be used for dividends.Everyone who participated this time will receive a large dividend.

Dr. Ali's previous inventions were all weird, which made his life more and more miserable. Now, with the technology of this game helmet, he has truly realized his dream of a billionaire.

Needless to say, Yuanzi, Xiaolan is completely lying and winning, and she also has 1% of the company's shares.When Xiaolan was given shares, Xiaolan refused in every possible way, and finally Yuanzi made a final decision, and Xiaolan accepted it. Since then, she has been very serious about designing clothing.

But Xiaolan never expected to make such money.

When the customer service call from the bank rang, Xiaolan was stunned. Until she hung up the phone in a daze, Xiaolan was still in a state of sleepwalking, and a new fragrant rich woman came out of the oven.

As for Kenta, he can finally start building the headquarters building of the future company, which he would never have thought about before.The headquarter is located in Kashido-cho, next to Mika-cho, and very close to Yoshida's house, so it is a good place.

The architectural designer hired this time is named Teiji Moritani.According to the information provided in the future, Teiji Moritani is a professor of the Department of Architecture at Nihong Dongdu University and a well-known architectural designer in Nihong.Mihua Municipal Building, Mihua Film City, Sumida Canal Bridge, etc. are all his works.

Kenta felt that this name was very familiar, he might have seen it on TV, after all, he was a famous designer.After paying him the deposit, just wait for the design drawing to be completed before bidding for construction.There is no need for Kenta to pay all the money, as long as the land is bought, the land is mortgaged by the bank, and a series of financial means, the funds are complete.

As for the general group company, it is only continuing to develop artificial intelligence.I heard that there are several directions, such as smart home appliances and home robots.There is still a long way to go in this regard, so I will not express it.

After a series of arrangements have been made, let the secretary Mizutani Sakura carry it out.

Look at the time, it's 3 pm, it's time to get off work.

Kenta sets off for home.

In the past two days, Yuanzi has a tendency to become a girl with internet addiction.

When she was asked to come to the company this morning, Yuanzi actually said that he wanted to play games.There was no other way, Kenta could only help with the affairs of the game company. Fortunately, there were not many things to do, and there was future assistance. The main job of the game company was to make games, and other basic affairs were handled by the secretary of the Suzuki Group.

Back home, Kenta practiced karate for a while to prepare for tomorrow's karate exam.Kenta must have reached the black belt level in karate, but because of the age limit, there has been no exam.Daily training is also to be prepared.

After training, I went to the bathroom to take a hot shower.

Log in to the game.

The friend list shows that Yuanzi is not there.Kenta was full of question marks, where did he go?
No matter, Kenta came to the wild alone and started to brush monsters and level up.

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