Society owes me a brother

Although Lu Chi is interested in acquiring this game company, the specific acquisition plan can only be carried out after a professional negotiating team evaluates the game company.Lu Chi and others, who have long been familiar with the acquisition process and the pace of negotiations, are not in a hurry.In contrast, Gaventley and his employees, who only wanted to avoid the company's bankruptcy by hugging their thighs, were even more unable to restrain themselves.

"When can we go to school online?" Gavintley asked impatiently before even starting the negotiation process: "Didn't you say that the campus network is preparing to go public? Since you want to make free games to give back to users, it's not appropriate It's too late, we can start working now."

So the company has not yet acquired the boss and the employees can't wait to ask to work for the new company...

Even though the shareholders of the campus network are well-informed, this is the first time they have seen this kind of coquettish operation.

Several friends looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what to say.

After pondering for a moment, Lu Chi was the first to speak: "For making games, we still have to do some market research and product planning."

Gavintley and his staff nodded repeatedly, and said empathetically, "We know. What we mean is that if the campus network needs us to go to work, we can do it anytime."

Everyone smiled at the attitude of actively striving for it. Even Matthew Locke, who was not interested in this acquisition, couldn't help laughing: "It seems that our new partners are all people who love work."

As Matthew said, he turned his head and glanced at Lu Chi: "It matches your boss' personality very well."

Lu Chi ignored Matthew's sudden cuteness, but asked Gavintley and his employees thoughtfully: "After joining the campus network, do you mind changing the company's location to the ninth floor?"

I didn't expect Lu Chi to ask such a strange question.Gavin and his team members looked at each other for a while, and said, "Of course it's okay."

"That's good." Lu Chi hesitated, and added: "If any of you suffer from fear of heights or claustrophobia, you can bring it up."

Suddenly, Gavintley seemed to understand the reason why Lu Chi and the others wanted to visit the company, and immediately smiled: "Don't worry. None of us are afraid of heights, and none of us suffer from claustrophobia. In fact, we just moved here At that time, I also wanted to rent a higher floor. After all, the view and lighting of the upper floor are better than those of the downstairs. It’s just that the company’s budget was limited, and there were no vacant floors in the upper floors at that time.”

Gavin's employee added with a smile: "In fact, we all like extreme sports."

Lu Chi was relieved to hear everyone's enthusiastic response.

Originally, he wanted to see the company's new location, but he walked around and bought a game company. The chief financial officer who received a call from the boss was instantly stunned.Redman Scott and his negotiating team who received the call at the same time were also very speechless.

"You actually hired my team to acquire a company that doesn't even have the qualifications to go public. The entire company has launched more than ten games since its establishment. None of the games sold more than [-] M gold. I'm afraid they don't even have a net worth of [-]. M Jin's game company?"

After skimming through the basic information of the game company, the top international negotiator, who deeply felt that the campus network prefers to kill chickens, sighed arrogantly—this game company to be acquired is not so much called a company. A game studio in the form of a small workshop is more appropriate.Including the boss, the number of employees in the entire company does not exceed 20, which is not as large as the project team under a department of the campus network.

"I don't think you need to hire an external team at all for an acquisition like this - you can just let the financial department of the campus network do it directly." Although he treats a big client like Lu Chi differently, as the world's top Negotiation expert, Redman Scott, who has a great sense of superiority and pride in his work, almost couldn't hold back, took several deep breaths, and then suggested in a good voice: "After the previous few times We have also had in-depth contact with various departments of the campus network. I believe that with the ability and business level of your employees, it is no problem to be responsible for this scale of acquisition. Besides, Mr. Lu himself is an excellent financial manager. personnel and negotiators, I believe that your company can handle this matter perfectly only by relying on its own ability."

"But I always believe that there is a specialization in the art industry. It is the most reasonable and time-saving management model to entrust professional things to more professional people." Lu Chi said with a smile: "Of course I also hope that there will be more authoritative The evaluation agency will comprehensively and reasonably help me evaluate the value of this game company based on various factors.”

After all, they are partners who will work together in the future, and Lu Chi does not want to cause dissatisfaction with Gavin and others because of such a trivial matter of 10,000+, and he does not want to damage the reputation of the campus network because of such things.

Innocent!

Redman Scott at the other end of the computer clearly understood Lu Chi's implication. He curled his lips disapprovingly, and sighed: "Okay. Since you insist on doing this..."

Redman Scott quoted a staggering price according to his standards, and then said politely: "I will send someone to deal with this matter as soon as possible."

"Happy cooperation." Lu Chi hung up the phone with a smile.

Angel Locke, who was standing aside, tilted his head and blinked his eyes, reminding him kindly: "I think the employees of the campus network can handle such trivial matters. You don't need to find that vampire Redman Scott."

The entire business community in country M knows that the famous Redman Scott is an internationally renowned negotiator, and the large-scale group acquisitions and mergers and acquisitions he presided over are often presented on the podiums of major business schools as classic MBA cases.However, what is directly proportional to the reputation of Scott's team and the success rate of negotiations is Redman Scott's high offer that also makes the industry's tongue hurt.Of course, no matter how high Redman's asking price is, once the negotiation is successful, the benefits obtained will be far more appropriate than the remuneration paid to the negotiating team——

However, that generally refers to large-scale acquisitions involving billions, tens of billions, or even hundreds of billions. As for the small case of acquiring Gavin's game company, there is really no need to waste that money to find Redmansko special.Presumably Redman Scott was too lazy to take on such a small and unchallenged case.

Although he has never heard of Redman Scott's name, Gaventley nodded empathetically when he heard Angel Locke's question: "Yes, there is no need to ask outsiders for our own affairs. Since the game company was established, it hasn't made any big profits. Moreover, the company can't even make ends meet. It can't even pay the employees' salary and next year's rent. The remaining game copyrights are not very valuable. Mr. Lu sees Just give it as you like, it doesn’t matter if you have more or less. Anyway, the internal treatment of the campus network is better.”

Gavintley looked at Lu Chi very sincerely, and kept urging: "We are all young people, there is no need to follow the rules, let's follow our habits and make a quick decision."

After talking for so long, Gavintley also saw that Lu Chi and the shareholders of the campus network had no intention of acquiring the game company.The reason why I came in for a visit was because I was optimistic about the location on the second floor, and wanted to let the game company change the office location with the campus network.So Gavintley was particularly afraid that Lu Chi was "impulsive consumption", and he regretted it when he calmed down.At that time, the acquisition of game companies will definitely be useless, and they will still have to face bankruptcy.

You can't be too greedy!

Gavintley sighed, anxious, and simply said: "Come on. We can't do it anymore, otherwise, our side will file for bankruptcy directly. Don't bother any top international negotiators and evaluation experts. Institutions, let’s hire our entire team.”

This operation was even more outrageous than the previous operation of urging Lu Chi to acquire their company.Not to mention Lu Chi, even the other friends couldn't help being dumbfounded.

Zhang Yang, who was patiently explaining Lu Chi's thoughts to Angel, couldn't help asking, "Are you so anxious?"

"Of course!" Gavintley puffed up his chest and said confidently: "Smart people are good at grasping any encounters in life. Sometimes even if there is no encounter, you must create it for yourself."

"I believe that being able to meet you today is God's guidance to me. He told me that I must join the campus network." Gavintley said, turning his head to look at his partners and brothers who have been following him since the game company was founded.Su Rong said: "I must be responsible for my partners."

"As you said before, our game company is not so much a company as a studio composed of many game lovers. We don't have a rigorous planning department, and we can't do more in-depth market research. , we all just rely on our love for games and perseverance to get to the present step by step.”

"Although the games we developed are not very popular. But I believe that it's just that we haven't identified the market position and don't know what kind of games netizens like. It doesn't mean that my partners and I have a problem with our abilities." When Gavintley said this, he pointed to the various games on the bookshelf proudly: "Controller games, arcade games, handheld games, online games, you have all seen them, and with a limited budget and conditions, We have been working hard and catching up with popular trends in the industry. I can assure you that there is absolutely no problem with our business level, we just need a platform that can fully support us."

Having said that, whether it is Yue Bin, who is proficient in games, or Lu Chi, who is proficient in code, it can be seen that the abilities of Gavin and his game team are really average—probably at the second-rate level. , Coupled with the limitations of the environment and funds, what can be played out is even more general.

Originally, the best choice for Gavin and his team was to give up starting their own business and directly enter a large company for experience, or find the right investment, find the right market, find the right position, and start to develop slowly from a small game.It's a pity that choosing the former is not reconciled to disbanding like this, and choosing the latter is even more difficult to achieve because of the Internet bubble in the past few years, and all capital is particularly cautious about the Internet industry.So this time it was so hard to meet such a "taken advantage" of Lu Chi, and Gavintley would naturally not give up.

Gavin's proposal to let the company directly go bankrupt and lead the team members to directly join the campus network made Lu Chi's heart move——

Although it is known that the abilities of Gavin and others are not top-notch in the industry, the campus network has no intention of entering the game market.According to Lu Chi's idea, he just wanted Gavin's team to create a few free web games to attract users of the campus network, which neither required high-end equipment nor high-end capabilities.So it's definitely more than enough for Gavin and his team to do that.

In addition, Gai Wen's unsolicited suggestion can save the campus network a lot of money... Lu Chi pondered for a moment: "Have you really thought about it? Don't you regret it?"

Gavin and his team members looked at each other, and all the members nodded repeatedly—not to mention whether the copyright of the company that is about to go bankrupt and the games that few people have played since it went public are worth 20 yuan. M gold.Even if it’s really worth more than one hundred thousand yuan, if there are more than [-] people in the team, each person will get a few thousand yuan at most—I’m afraid they don’t even have half a month’s salary for the employees of the campus network.

Instead of wasting an unknown amount of time for these thousands of dollars and risking the failure of the acquisition, it is better to join the campus network immediately and find a stable job—the most important thing is that everyone can join together neatly Campus Network.

Are all programmers so naive!

The Locke brothers and sisters stared dumbfounded at Gavin and the others who offered not to pay to join the campus network, and were complacent about how much they had taken advantage of. Their brains almost short-circuited.

What kind of development is this?

Lu Chi couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth, and said with a softer outline: "Since you have all made up your mind, then without further ado, go to the campus network to sign the contract this afternoon."

"Yeah!" Gavin and his partners happily jumped three feet high and clapped their hands in celebration.

Seeing everyone's excitement, Lu Chi smiled and said to Gai Wen: "As for the game company filing for bankruptcy, it depends on your wishes. It's okay if you don't want to file for bankruptcy, as long as you sign a resignation agreement with the employees, and then Just join the campus network."

"What about me!" Gavintley raised his paw subconsciously and asked after hearing this, "Do I also sign the resignation agreement myself?"

The boss signed a resignation agreement for himself or something...

Lu Chi and the others looked at each other and were speechless.

Gavintley seemed to have picked up a big deal, hehe smirked and said, "That's fine too, and it will save me a lot of severance pay..."

******

When they came out of Gavin's company, Gavin and his partners were still happy to see their teeth but see their eyes.They followed Lu Chi like big quails, and went to the ninth floor to see their new home—the view was good, the lighting was good, and the working environment was more spacious and bright than the second floor where they stayed before, even though the hall was full of people. The lattice room looks a bit serious and depressing (because the previous company was a securities company).

Lu Chi fell behind and called Redman Scott to inform the other party that the acquisition had been satisfactorily resolved and there was no need to send anyone over.The negotiator who received the call was also relieved - if it wasn't for Lu Chi, a big client with a lot of money, he really didn't want to lower his status to take such a small case.Now that Lu Chi can solve the problem by himself, it couldn't be better.

After being polite on the phone, Lu Chi hung up the phone.Looking at Gawen and others who were running back and forth on the ninth floor with disgust on their faces, Lu Chi said with a smile: "Before the campus network moves here, this place will be redecorated. If you have any requests or suggestions, please contact the logistics department directly later." The people in the department said. After all, it is installed here, and it is also for everyone to use.” So it is natural to go along with everyone’s preferences.

Gavin and the others' eyes lit up, and they immediately asked, "Then when shall we meet with the people from the logistics department?"

Since you must meet at the headquarters of the campus network, and since you have entered the campus network, you must sign a contract. As long as you sign the contract, you will be guaranteed for life.So this is a really important question.

Lu Chi: "..."

Before getting off work in the afternoon, Lu Chi brought a group of excited little quails back to the campus network's apartment near Stanford.

After throwing the excited programmers and the only front desk girl to HR, Lu Chi dragged Yue Bin who was very enthusiastic and wanted to help everyone complete the entry procedures.Shi Shiran returned to their small apartment.

Probably the experience in the afternoon aroused Yue Bin's game spirit.Back home, Yue Bin looked around to find out the long-lost game console and handle, and prepared to play tank battle with Lu Chi.

Lu Chi played with his husky a couple of times before losing interest.Seeing this, Yue Bin enthusiastically invited Lu Chi to accompany him to play a web game that has become popular all over the world recently.It was a large-scale online game adapted from the "Interstellar" series of novels, but unfortunately Lu Chi still had no interest.

Looking at Lu Chi's lack of interest, Yue Bin couldn't help asking cautiously: "...you don't like to play?"

Lu Chi gave a "hmm" and put the laptop on the coffee table in front of the sofa.

Yue Bin blinked, and thought for a while: "Actually, I think it's very strange. You are so smart, and your hand speed is so fast when coding, how can you just..." Die so fast when you play games!

Lu Zhi put his hands on his cheeks and thought for a while, then said casually: "Probably because I subconsciously feel that playing this kind of game is a waste of time."

"...Oh!" Yue Bin recalled Lu Chi's obsessed with study and work, and immediately drooped his head and tail: "Then, shall I endorse the book with you?"

Lu Chi leaned on the sofa, put his hands on his cheeks, gave Yue Bin a sideways look, but smiled and said nothing.

"Then, then let's improve the listing plan of the campus network?" Yue Bin thought for a while, and continued to propose—although he was a little disappointed that he couldn't play games together, as long as he was with his family, Lu Chi, no matter what he did. He likes them all.

Lu Chi looked at his stupid roe deer who was clumsily nestled in the corner of the sofa.His gaze calmly swept across the silly roe deer's aggrieved handsome face, his broad chest and the looming abdominal muscles covered under the T-shirt. He raised his eyebrows and said with a meaningful smile, "Go take a bath!"

"..."

"Ooooooooo!!!"

Mr. Yue Bin, who instantly changed from a silly roe deer to a wolf, raised his head and screamed, kicked his hind legs, jumped off the sofa, shook his head and tail, and rushed into the bathroom aggressively.