My Animation Era

The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching.

In accordance with previous years' practice, Wanbao Group's boss lady personally took the initiative and specially customized a batch of animation-themed mooncakes to give to employees and partners.

Also sold online.

However, the theme of this year's anime mooncakes is the "Fruit Attack" series. In order to cater to this theme, the mooncake fillings are also fruit-flavored. Many people are not used to eating them, and sales are extremely low.

"To be honest, it's quite unpalatable."

Gu Miao tried a strawberry-flavored mooncake and said that he really couldn't appreciate it.

The wild boar couldn't eat the fine bran, and the fruit mooncake was obviously quite expensive, but it was boring for him to eat, and he even thought it was quite dark.

What a coincidence!

He is not the only one who thinks so. Many employees in the company who received mooncakes said that these mooncakes are not as delicious as Wuren's. The boss lady may have been cheated this year.

"Forget it, I only eat this once a year, so there's no need to worry about it so much."

Compared to Gu Miao's complaints, Lao Zhang thought it was nothing. After all, mooncakes were originally meant to create a festive atmosphere, and whether they were delicious or not was not necessarily important.

What's more, just because Gu Miao can't get used to eating fruit-flavored mooncakes doesn't mean that others can't get used to it either! Didn’t those female employees collectively post on WeChat saying that the company’s mooncakes this year are simply amazing?

"Stop being like this, are they showing off moon cakes? They are showing off their jobs and benefits!" Gu Miao rolled her eyes.

This is exactly like the kind of person who drives home during the Chinese New Year, opens the trunk and is filled with all kinds of rice, flour and oil, and tells everyone they meet that they are issued by their work unit.

Do you think people are drying moon cakes and rice noodles?

What people want to show off is their work. They wish that all men, women and children in the village would know which big company, which government department, which state-owned enterprise you work for...

The mooncakes are hard to eat, but the packaging is quite exquisite. The gold-plated Wanbao Group logo is paired with a line of small words "For the cutest person". At least it is very dignified to give as a gift.

Gu Miao said it tasted bad, but she honestly carried several boxes and prepared to go back and give them to Lao Gu, Lao Wang and his father-in-law and mother-in-law to try.

certainly!

Gu Miao not only delivers mooncakes, he also collects them. It's not the Mid-Autumn Festival yet, but Coco says that the house is full of mooncakes.

They are all sent by various partners, dealers, confidants in the business community, and old friends in the same industry. I don’t know whether they are expensive or not. Anyway, judging from the packaging, they should be very expensive.

However, these mooncakes were no longer with Gu Miao, and he couldn't taste them, because just the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, he took a group of senior executives from Wanbao Group and flew to Xiangjiang, the southern tip of the motherland.

Wanbao Video is on the market!

After a long wait, during which we also reached an undisclosed PY deal with Penguin, arranged road shows and held investor talks, we were finally ready to ring the bell.

Gu Miao originally didn't want to come. Wouldn't it be nice to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival at home with his wife and children? If that doesn't work, you can just sit in the office and work on "The Magic Soldier"!

Why do you come all the way to ring the bell? famous? Making headlines in financial news?

Stop it!

Gu Miao firmly believes in making a fortune by keeping quiet and will not show up if she can. In these years, she has refused all interviews except necessary interviews.

But there was no way, everyone said that Gu Miao was the perfect candidate to ring the bell, and no one except him dared to stand in the C position.

on the other hand.

Gu Miao's personal appearance to cheer for Wanbao Video Platform can also enhance the confidence of investors and stockholders and further push up the stock price, so he is here.

…

Once upon a time, Gu Miao had fantasized countless times about the company going public and how proud she would be when facing the spotlight as the founder.

But at this moment, he suddenly felt that everything was boring.

Why do you say that?

Because in the past, he was always brainwashed by various financial media. He always felt that going public meant getting rich overnight. Countless billionaires were born, and the founder jumped to the top of a certain wealth list.

But after actually promoting the listing of a subsidiary, he discovered that these were all lies...

Going public does not mean getting rich. It only provides a channel for financing and development for the company, and the market value cannot represent the value of shareholders.

Take Wanbao Video as an example.

The opening price of Wanbao Video, which has just been listed, rose 5.7% from the issue price to 34.2 yuan per share, with a total market value of more than 35 billion yuan.

If calculated based on this stock price, Gu Miao's net worth has skyrocketed to tens of billions, and the money he earns in one day is higher than the total revenue of many companies.

But this is of no use. Gu Miao's shares are all tied up. It's not until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse that he wants to get out of the trap. What's more, if all the shares in Gu Miao's hands are released, the stock price must not fall to the point where his own mother will not recognize it?

But then again.

Although Gu Miao does not think that the listing of Wanbao Video has made him rich, one thing is certain, that is, the listing of Wanbao Video has made Wanbao Video a lot of money.

With billions of funds in hand, Wanbao Video should not be afraid of running out of money in the next five years.

“It’s fun to spend other people’s money!”

Gu Miao suddenly smiled when she thought that Wanbao Video would not need financial assistance from Wanbao Group in the next few years.

This gold-eating giant, the blood-sucking company pressing on Wanbao's head, has finally found a way out.

What if Wanbao continues to be raised?

It can definitely be sustained by raising it, but the cost of doing so is very heavy, because most of the profits of Wanbao Group have to be used to fill the gap of Wanbao Video.

When it comes to video websites, even websites like Wanbao Video, which produces most of its own dramas and animations, are still in a difficult stage of making money.

After all, current copyrights are too expensive!

Want to buy a popular TV series or variety show? Then prepare tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of funds. Without eight or nine figures, you can't compete with other websites.

Animation is slightly cheaper.

But good-looking, high-quality animated works cost seven or eight figures, and if it’s an animated movie, the price is about the same.

Under such circumstances, if Gu Miao did not promote the listing process of Wanbao Video, he would not be able to feed this gold-eating beast.

In fact, Wanbao is pretty good.

At least Wanbao's annual losses in the video website business are not particularly high. If you look at other peers, you will know that they are really spending money like water, and losing billions or tens of billions is just a joke.

One very interesting thing is that these video websites can all make profits, but they have given up making profits and would rather lose money to seize high-quality copyrights.

Why?

Because there is peer competition, it is not too late to kill these competing peers first and monopolize the copyright of high-quality audio-visual programs before harvesting the market.

The same goes for Wanbao Video, it can be profitable, but not profitable.

Because the current profit means that Wanbao Video has taken the initiative to withdraw from the competition among first-line video websites, and it also means that Wanbao Video will be the first opponent to be eliminated.

Everyone is fighting for territory and people, but you say you don’t want to fight anymore and just want to run your own business safely? This is unrealistic!

It's finally sunny, it's been raining for a week...