My Animation Era

  Chapter 529 Do not steam steamed buns to fight for breath (subscription required)

  Through a year-end summary meeting, Gu Miao temporarily figured out the specific situation of each company, and at the same time determined the development direction of the group in the new year.

In general.

  In the past year, Wanbao Group has shown a thriving development momentum.

  Although there are some serious problems such as losses and making ends meet in a small part of the business, overall, the performance of the entire group is still growing positively.

   This made Gu Miao extremely happy.

   In the past few years, Wanbao Group was only a small group company in Jiangchuan, ranking at the bottom. So the current Wanbao Group is already qualified to compete with those giants in heavy industry, light industry, commerce and real estate.

  Even talking about "profit", Gu Miao can still proudly say that Wanbao is the most profitable group company in Jiangchuan, bar none.

   This is not bragging!

  Those local large groups and large enterprises in Jiangchuan, although their industrial scales are getting more and more scary, they are all "heavy assets and high liabilities" enterprises.

  Wanbao Group belongs to the cultural industry, with light assets and low debts. In terms of earning ability, it will definitely surpass them...

   Didn’t you see that in the latest list of China’s top 500 private enterprises, Wanbao Group has squeezed out many giants, ranking first in Jiangchuan and 174th in the country?

  The vigorous development of Wanbao Group not only gave Gu Miao a greater sense of accomplishment in life, but also allowed his personal wealth to grow by leaps and bounds.

   Last time, Gu Miao ranked 72nd on the 100 Rich List with a wealth of 7.8 billion yuan, aspiring to be the richest man in Jiangchuan.

  However, at that time, Gu Miao's position as "Jiangchuan's richest man" was not secure. It could even be said that this was given to him by Mr. Xiong.

  After all, at that time, Feiyang Real Estate Group had just undergone a round of power alternation, and President Xiao Xiong took over as the chairman and was allocated a lot of shares.

   That is to say...

  The actual wealth of Mr. Xiong + Mr. Xiong is far greater than that of Gu Miao. It was only because of the split of the shares that Gu Miao took advantage and became the new richest man in Jiangchuan.

   But this time is different.

  In the latest 100 Rich List released, Gu Miao's personal wealth broke through the tens of billions mark for the first time, and reached 28.4 billion yuan, entering the top 30 from 72nd.

   Of course, he's the goalie.

   Gu Miao, who just happened to be ranked 30th, was far behind the 29th, but there was also a big gap between the 31st and him.

   At this point, it is stuck, and it cannot go up or down.

  In just one and a half years, the reason why Gu Miao's personal wealth has expanded so much is actually very simple.

  The financial media that counts and releases this rich list has previously estimated the value of "IP" extremely conservatively, and only added or subtracted a little based on Wanbao Group's revenue.

   They seem to have done enough work this year.

  In Gu Miao's introduction, a large part of the valuation of wealth comes from its animation IP.

   Moreover, the valuation of each IP can withstand scrutiny. They also specially recruited some professionals to estimate the IPs of "Pokémon", "Sailor Moon", and "Yu-Gi-Oh."

but…

  Even though the explanation given by the financial media is very convincing, Gu Miao, who is the person involved, said: Pure nonsense!

  The valuation of the IP of "Pokémon" is only 500 million US dollars, can you believe it?

   Hurry up and pull it down!

   It can only be said that a layman is always a layman.

  Even professional financial media have huge loopholes in the IP estimation of the animation industry. Just look at the so-called "Hundred Rich List".

   Rankings may be accurate.

   But the specific wealth figures, this thing is very mysterious. Others Gu Miao didn't dare to say it, anyway, he felt that he was underestimated.

  …

  Whether Jiangchuan is the richest man or Jiangchuan is the poorest, these external titles or titles did not affect Gu Miao's mentality.

  He also got married and started a business.

  When you are young, you may be more concerned about these rankings, wealth! But since Xiao Sensen was born, Gu Miao didn't care much about these things.

  What he cares more about is how to create more wonderful works in a limited life, so that more people will remember him, a respected animation director.

   That rabbit is a good start.

  Through the animation "Things About That Rabbit That Year", Gu Miao successfully pushed her reputation with Wanbao Animation to a whole new level.

   As time progresses into the end of January.

  When the influence of the animation "Those Things That Rabbit That Year" continued to spread, it attracted countless people to talk about it.

  Wanbao Animation quietly officially announced the news that four works including "Devil Soldiers at Maoer Mountain", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Pleasant Goat" and "Three Sisters of the Southern Family II" will premiere soon.

  This operation not only stunned passers-by fans, but also made many colleagues wonder.

  What are you doing?

  Although the winter vacation or the Spring Festival file is a good animation broadcast season, there are often animations that get together for the first time. But your company has produced four animations, isn't it a bit too awesome?

   Raising Gu is not like this!

   Regarding Wanbao Animation’s official announcement of the premiere of four new works, passers-by viewers and colleagues who are confused can only judge it as—Wanbao is crazy!

   Passers-by and audiences are okay to say.

  Anyway, everyone is a melon-eating crowd who don’t think it’s a big deal to watch the excitement. They hope that there will be more new works.

  But for those colleagues who are also interested in competing for winter vacation and Spring Festival, this news is fatal.

"what to do?"

  Zhonghai Meihua Animation, Guishou Animation and other well-known domestic animation companies held meetings almost at the same time to discuss countermeasures.

  Wanbao has already made a move!

   Released four new works in one go, and made it clear that they want to "monopolize" this winter vacation, leaving no way for others to survive.

   Then do they still have to mix in?

  For rational considerations, at this time, we should avoid its edge, stagger the schedule, and put the new work on the air in the spring school season later, so as to maximize the benefits.

   But rationality is rationality.

  Winter vacation and Spring Festival are the most favorable time for broadcasting animation in a year. Who doesn’t want to fight for it?

  As the saying goes, don’t steam steamed buns to win your breath.

  He Wanbao is very popular, almost every new work can be popular. But no matter how much the other party picks it up, it won't let companies such as Plum Blossom Animation and Guishou Animation surrender without a fight!

  Let’s not talk about whether you can fight well or not.

  At least as an animation company, you have to dare to show your sword and dare to compete in order to have hope, right?

not to mention…

  Xuanji Animation has given everyone a good start, proving that Wanbao Animation is not invincible. As long as the quality of the works is excellent, there is no need to fear the competition from Wanbao Animation.

  Since this is the case, what are you afraid of?

  A Xuanji Animation with a total team of less than 50 people dared to challenge Wanbao Animation, and almost overturned Wanbao.

  People like Plum Blossom Animation and Guishou Animation don’t think they are worse than Xuanji Animation. There's no reason you can't do what others can do.

  (end of this chapter)