Chateau Lafitte Hotel in the northern suburbs of Beijing
Che Qiuping is the vice president of Tencent Interactive Entertainment Group (IEG). In recent months, he has presided over some of the actions of the "Glory of Kings League (KPL)" against Phoenix Immortal Pavilion.
It is said that Pony has a very good personal relationship with Mr. Jing of the Phoenix Group, and they can have dinner and drinks together. But the boss's personal relationship is a personal relationship, and the competition among the companies below is a competition.
Phoenix Group's recent series of actions in the entertainment field have aroused the bosses above. At the monthly meeting, some people have raised concerns about Phoenix Group's expansion in the entertainment field.
Phoenix Group’s expansion method is exactly the same as that of LeTV in previous years. Lift it high and hit it high, the movements are sharp and fast, and the money is spent like water.
The Phoenix Group is currently undergoing a comprehensive transformation, aiming to compete with iQiyi, the internet giant and king of streaming media, Netflix, as well as Phoenix Films’ self-built film and television website, which will compete with HBO in the United States, and it has been spun off from iQiyi and inherited Its original business style is Qiyi TV.
You must know that the so-called entertainment is actually simply film and television, music, games, and sports event broadcasts.
The invasion of Internet capital into the film and television industry relies on three major video websites: Youaiteng. Now, the Phoenix Group has launched three websites, and they operate independently of each other and have different management teams. This puts a lot of pressure on Tencent Video! There is also great pressure on Youku, which is affiliated with Alibaba.
Moreover, Phoenix Group also owns 30% of the shares of short video station B, and controls Sina and Sina Weibo. Compete with Tencent in short videos, live broadcasts, and news. Just last week, Tiangong Games, a subsidiary of Phoenix Group Jingbo, announced its entry into mobile games.
At this point, Phoenix Group's "pan-entertainment" strategy and Tencent's entertainment empire are already in full competition.
Tencent’s internal meaning is: Phoenix Group is not allowed to become the second NetEase (NetEase has direct competition with Tencent in the fields of games, music and other fields. Games are the cash cows of the Tencent empire), and Phoenix Group is not allowed to become the second NetEase. ByteDance.
Killer applications such as ByteDance’s “Today’s Toutiao”, “Douyin”, and “Tiktok” have actually threatened Tencent’s status in the world.
Of course, that's what it is said. After he implemented the suppression policy, Mr. Jing asked his Ma Zi and one of the main players of the e-sports club, Mr. Zhu Yuzhu, to send him a message: "Don't be a worker and act like a master." .There are some things you can’t afford to interfere with!”
This made him very helpless. He dare not say that he will work at Tencent for the rest of his life. If he really wants to leave Tencent and be stared at by Boss Jing like this, his career will basically be ruined. However, he is not stupid to be the vice president of Tencent's six major business groups.
For today's meeting, he invited Ying Shulin, who is influential in the field of e-sports competitions, to accompany him. Jing Gao has shares in VSPN. And I also had exchanges with Ying Shulin at the Internet Conference in Wuzhen.
In the conference room on the second floor of the hotel, Zhu Yu and Deng Ran sat down respectively to discuss with Che Qiuping and Ying Shulin. Secretaries, assistants, and helpers were waiting outside the luxurious conference room.
Che Qiuping, who was forty-six years old, took a sip of tea and asked with a smile: "Master Zhu, what are the regulations of Boss Jing? I see that Tiangong Games announced last week that it will enter the mobile game field. This basically means that the two of us have started a war. .”
His attitude is still very tough.
Ying Shulin was born in 1981 and is 37 years old this year. At this age, he is considered young among billionaires. But he is just a figure promoted by venture capital, Huayi, Tencent and later Modu Capital.
Think about it, how could a person who dropped out of East China Normal University work as an intern at Standard Chartered Bank for three months to learn investments? Is this a treatment that ordinary people can have?
He drank tea with a smile. Looking at the famous beauty boss Deng Ran in the e-sports circle: she is 1.7 meters tall, and her thick winter coat covers her beautiful figure, but it cannot hide her good looks. She has white and tender skin, a bright face, and wears exquisite glasses. She has the charm and maturity of a twenty-three-year-old girl, and also has a bit of workplace style after taking charge of an e-sports club. Very nice.
From this glance, it is clear that she has been developed and watered to maturity by Mr. Jing, and Dong Xuanzi is estimated to be able to do thirty-six tricks. Everyone in the industry knows that she is Mr. Jing’s concubine. Mr. Jing has such a good eye for choosing women!
Zhu Yu is two years younger than Jing Gao. He is 27 years old this year. He is tall and thin. He wears expensive winter clothes and has a much calmer temperament than before. After all, the family's catering group "Wei Chunqiu" and affordable hotel chain brand "Chunqiu Inn" are developing very well. The total assets are four to five billion.
As Shaodong, the only heir, although he hangs around in the capital every day, eating, drinking, picking up girls, playing cars, and giving advice on a small amount of money, he is known as the fourth young master in the capital, but he is still very confident in his heart, isn't he?
"Mr. Che, this thing you are talking about is business competition! Tencent can do whatever it wants. I don't think Brother Jing will say anything to you, Mr. Ma. But the Phoenix Fairy Pavilion E-Sports Club is just a hobby of Brother Jing. , if you don't abide by the rules now and use your power to suppress me, that's a personal grudge.
Think about it clearly, is it true that Brother Jing is the only one who has personal hobbies, and the 16 big bosses at the Tencent General Office meeting don't necessarily have them, right? It's easy for Brother Jing to target him. Are you sure you want to take things to this point? "
Che Qiuping is tough, Zhu Yu's attitude is even tougher!
The boss doesn't have any personal hobbies yet. As long as you have hobbies, you may be targeted by Brother Jing. Who wouldn’t be disgusting? You, a small vice president, are you sure you want to do this just to flatter the bosses above?
Che Qiuping was silent. He just didn't dare, that's why we negotiated today's meeting.
There are rumors in the world that Mr. Jing is a very powerful person with dirty tricks. He often kills the management and strictly supervises the internal work. When making decisions, he often makes decisions based on personal preferences rather than the amount of benefits. Mr. Jing cannot be regarded as a rational economic person.
So angering the well is always a very threatening thing, at least he can't resist it.
Ying Shulin tried to smooth things over, adjusted his glasses, and said with a smile: "Master Zhu, it won't happen, it won't happen. Let's talk slowly, there will always be a solution, right?"
He is the actual controller of VSPN. Hero Interactive Entertainment is his foundation. It has been listed on the New Third Board and has many investors. Mainly responsible for mobile game development. The valuation is nearly 10 billion.
This valuation is meaningless and is just capital blowing bubbles. A mobile game company's annual profits are only a few hundred million. How could it have such a high valuation if it were to go public? It’s not that Huayi helps blow the bubbles, the bubbles are really so valuable!
If it is so awesome, why has it failed to attack A-shares in recent years? Who dares to take responsibility for this big bubble?
Ying Shulin's real "power" in the e-sports circle comes from vspn. This company is deeply tied to Tencent and is the organizer of leagues for most of Tencent’s games. For example, the LPL of League of Legends and the KPL of Honor of Kings.
Therefore, it has close relationships with major e-sports clubs. This is inevitable. The current e-sports environment seems to be thriving, but it actually needs a blood transfusion! And the owners of major e-sports clubs are blood transfusions.
This is the trend brought about by Principal Wang!
It's a bit like Chinese football.
Therefore, as the organizer of the event, the relationship between vspn and the owner of the e-sports club is not an absolute strong one, but an interdependent relationship. If the sponsors don’t play, will you still run this league? Are you still making money? It will definitely be severely damaged that season.
In 2016, the Wuzhen Internet Conference invited Ying Shulin to participate. He was at the big guys' dinner parties. But then he went downhill.
You know, at the peak of bubble-blowing, a mobile game company was valued at tens of billions and was established less than 2 years ago. Who wouldn't be optimistic about this? But then the tide of capital receded, and his underwear was exposed.
A mobile game manufacturer and an organizer of game events, after the valuation has dropped, it is obvious that it can no longer be compared with the Internet giants!
Zhu Yu's face changed, he would do this, and Ying Shulin complained: "Mr. Ying, Brother Jing's request is very simple, that is, do not target the Phoenix Fairy Pavilion Club in the LPL and KPL leagues. Brother Jing is spending money. It’s about having fun, not spending money to find pain.”
Ying Shulin nodded: "That's right!"
He once met and chatted with Mr. Jing at the Wuzhen Internet Conference. Jing is always a very proud person and seems not to be very good at socializing. It is said that after NetEase's dinner that night, he and Alibaba's Ma Yun met at a villa outside Wuzhen, and then the conflict between the two became completely public. The two Internet giants subsequently competed in multiple areas.
Recently, Mr. Jing seems to have received guidance from experts and is focusing on Alibaba’s entertainment industry! Alibaba is known as the "Entertainment Paraquat". As long as they acquire entertainment companies, they will basically kill them.
The information he came across was: Alibaba's corporate culture is too strong, and it often assimilates its subsidiaries and subsidiary companies, and then kills them.
Tencent can certainly afford to be at odds with the Phoenix Group. But Che Qiuping may not be able to bear it personally. Mr. Ma treats his own people quite well. The equity given to subordinates was cashed in before going public. But who dares to say that they will work at Tencent for a lifetime?
The mobility of private company executives is still very high.
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Jing Gao was also at the Chateau Lafitte Hotel, but did not participate in the negotiations between Zhu Yu and Deng Ran. He doesn't care about such trivial matters.
Chateau Lafitte is a well-known hot spring hotel in Beijing. Not far to the north is the headquarters area of Phoenix Group. Buildings are going up.
However, he did not go to the hot springs this time. Instead, he rested in the presidential suite upstairs and read a book, accompanied by Yang Chun and Cen Yulu. There are also Yue Jia, the assistant that Deng Ran brought to the capital, and Qing Ling, the beautiful KPL league commentator who is raised by the Phoenix Fairy Pavilion Club.
Zhang Li met him last Saturday night and was in love, working as an assistant with him.
Jing Gao put down the "Cai Gen Tan" in his hand, looked at the WeChat message sent by Xia Lingling, and replied: "Lingling, you are here. Please wait for a while, I will go back to Yuntu Villa in the afternoon."
