America's Road to Fame

Chapter 377 Acquisition of Team WE
However, this action also greatly expanded the influence of Xiao Wang who is about to enter the field of e-sports.

In this lively atmosphere, on July 7st, there was news that the CCM team, which had just won the TGA first half finals championship, was acquired by Xiao Wang.

This news was quickly confirmed, because then he strongly poached four members of the Dota division of the giant LGD and announced the formation of the iG club.

It is reported that for these four contestants, Xiao Wang gave each of them a poaching fee of 5 yuan.This fee, in the e-sports industry at this time, is undoubtedly a sky-high price, which caused countless controversies for a while.

Because of this, Xiao Wang was also evaluated by the media at this time as the most competitive investor in the history of e-sports.

In a subsequent interview, he said:

"I think players and clubs in this circle are not doing very well. I want to increase the income of players and make this circle a little bit more benign. Otherwise, players will have no money, and clubs will have no money. This industry can only Go die slowly. But no one wants to come in this circle now, so here I am."

As Riot Games announced the prize money for this year's S1 season global finals, various domestic clubs are also gearing up to participate in this competition.

Because the Huaguo Club is already strong in e-sports, according to the prize money this time, even if they can't win the championship in the end, they can have a good ranking. In the total prize pool of 2500 million U.S. dollars, the remaining 60% of the 1500 million U.S. dollars in prize money is also Can share a lot.

And for the 24 teams that entered the finals, the travel expenses to and from Atlanta and the local board and lodging were all provided by the organizers of the event, and there was no need for each team to pay any fees, so everyone was very enthusiastic.

But what's interesting is that the CCM team was just acquired by Xiao Wang, and in the final final of the first half of the TGA finals, the opponent was the old and well-known club WE.

Recently, the club has been searching for experts in the LOL project, and seems to be preparing to reorganize the LOL project team.

But they were originally a team with good strength. Their LOL team members are: top laner Yemengshu, jungler Xiaofan, mid laner brother, ADC Ruofeng, and support IF.

In the just-concluded TGA finals, he was only narrowly defeated by the CCM team, so there should be no need to make too many adjustments.

Soon, more accurate news came out, which also cleared up everyone's confusion. It turned out that before Riot Games announced the news of the S1 season, someone had contacted WE Club and bought their entire LOL team, including coaches and players. Members, the agreement is signed, even if the WE Club regrets later, it will be too late.

And the team treatment given by the other party is quite good, and the entire team will move from Xi'an to Shanghai, so those players are naturally very satisfied.

Not long after Xiao Wang acquired the CCM team to form the IG club, a new club composed of members of the former WE club LOL team-HTG (HeyTea Gaming) was established in the new TC building in Pudong, Shanghai.

According to the inquiry, this team belongs to Weimi Investment Company, and the major shareholder of Weimi Investment is Yang Mi.

And from the name of this team, HeyTea Gaming, it can be seen that their team has also been sponsored by HeyTea Company, and the founder of HeyTea is originally Yang Mi.

At this time, Yang Mi no longer concealed it, and posted a photo of her with all HTG team members on Weibo, with the text:
New journey, HTG come on!

This Weibo can already explain the problem, and under this Weibo, there are not only messages from her friends in the circle, such as Qi Wei, who left a message saying:
"Boss Yang, take me to blackmail in the future, I love you!"

Xiao Wang also forwarded this Weibo in time, and left a message:

"IG and HTG work together and work hard for the development of Huaguo e-sports!"

At this point, everyone remembered the interaction between Yang Mi and Xiao Wang on Weibo before. How could they not understand that the two should have discussed investing in e-sports clubs before.

But other than that, people with a discerning eye can also see that Yang Mi's background seems to be very unusual. Otherwise, if he were an ordinary star, how could he make a top rich second generation like Xiao Wang look at him differently? Not only was he very polite to her, And after there was an affair between the two, it was clarified as soon as possible.

Compared with many celebrities that Xiao Wang had slandered before, the treatment Yang Mi received was simply worlds apart, and Xiao Wang also took the initiative to call her sister, which explained a lot of things.

After acquiring the LOL team of the WE club and founding the HTG club, Yang Mi's investment in Weimi as a major shareholder has attracted the attention of many people.

However, this is not the only action of Weimi Investment, but just the beginning.

What Chen William designed for Yang Mi's Weimi investment is to make efforts in games, e-sports, and live broadcasting, so other investments that he doesn't care about are handed over to Yang Mi to complete.

A few days later, the second investment project of Weimi Investment has been negotiated. It will invest 100 million Chinese dollars in a start-up company with three graduates, and get 15% of the shares. The name of this company is Mihayou .

The three founders of MiHoYo all graduated from Jiaotong University in Shanghai, and they are all "technical nerds" who love Two-dimensional culture.

In 2009, the three tried to independently develop web games, transforming their love for Two-dimensional into game products.

It is worth mentioning that the graduation project of the three of them at Shanghai Jiaotong University was a stand-alone game DEMO, but the relatively older instructors were not optimistic about the Two-dimensional culture, which resulted in the low score of the graduation project of the three of them.

In 2011, Cai Haoyu, who was about to graduate as a graduate student, brought together Liu Wei and Luo Yuhao, who also love Two-dimensional culture, to formally set up Mihayou Studio in the dormitory of Jiaotong University Minhang Campus, Shanghai, and shouted the slogan "technical house saves the world". , focused on Two-dimensional game development, and started the entrepreneurial journey since then.

The start-up capital of their team comes from an interest-free loan of 10 yuan from the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center. The office is only 50 square meters, and the free use period is half a year.

When they were concentrating on the development of MiHoYo's first game - the cute girl game "Fly Me 2 the Moon" under the simple conditions, what they didn't expect was that the employee representative of Weimi Investment Company Yang Mi found them and proposed to invest in their game studio.

At this time, the three people who were not very sure about the future and lacked venture capital were overjoyed, but they still couldn't believe it.

It wasn't until Yang Mi came forward in person that they finally convinced them that they hadn't encountered a scammer. In the end, Weimi Investment Company invested 100 million and got Mihayou, a future two-dimensional game giant with a valuation of more than 2000 billion Chinese dollars. 15% of the shares.

After that, Weimi Investment made another move. Yang Mi listened to William Chen's advice and sent someone to the headquarters of Station B to discuss investment matters.

In 2006, the Japanese animation platform Niconico began to use the barrage function. The next year, AcFun in Huaguo first introduced the barrage function. At this time, a young man named Xu Yi became the first batch of members of AcFun.

At that time, AcFun was called Station A. However, due to internal conflicts and technical problems, the servers of Station A often went down from July to August 2009.

So, in June 2009, Xu Yi decided to create his own stable barrage video sharing platform.

He improvised a website in three days and named it mikufans, which means fans of Hatsune Miku (miku), which was the predecessor of Bilibili.

At this time, the operation of mikufans is basically based on the artificial love generated by the differentiation of station A, which is basically the back garden of station A.

Because of the broadcast of "A Certain Scientific Electromagnetic Gun", Xu Yi liked the protagonist Misaka Mikoto very much. Misaka Mikoto was nicknamed Bilibili (discharge girl) in the anime, so the original mikufans changed its name in January 2010 bilibili, which later corresponded to Station A, was called Station B.

Some mechanisms of station B, such as coin-operating, charging, and membership system up to level 6, are all related to super gun animation.

While Yang Mi's subordinates were discussing investment with Bilibili, another person also came to Bilibili, hoping to invest in it. He was Chen Rui, Vice President of Cheetah Mobile.

The reason why he chose to invest in Bilibili is because he himself likes animation very much and is also a loyal user of Bilibili.

The final result of the negotiation was that Weimi Investment and Chen Rui both became the seed round investors of Bilibili.

Station B finally took a post-investment valuation of 2000 million Chinese dollars. Chen Rui invested 200 million Chinese dollars and held 10% of the shares; Weimi Investment invested 500 million Chinese dollars and held 25% of the shares.

After this investment is completed, the projects under Weimi Investment Company will include an e-sports club, investment in a two-dimensional game studio, and a two-dimensional video website. It seems that Yang Mi's investment is developing in a strange direction ...

(End of this chapter)