Su Yi said, "If you are ready now, then we can proceed."
"I really hadn't thought this far."
Liu Zishan said apologetically,
"But after I return, I will immediately send a letter of intent for investment to Mr. Su's email."
"No problem, as long as both of you are interested, you can sign anytime,"
Su Yi said with a smile.
"It seems our Mr. Su has made quite a lot of money in the stock market recently."
Seeing Su Yi so casually decide on the project of investing in 'Diezhi Network Technology' company, Fang Wanqing was also surprised and said with a smile,
"How about... you teach me later too?"
Su Yi replied,
"Miss Fang has a famous teacher to guide her; I wouldn't dare to show off with my level."
"Where do I have a famous teacher to guide me?"
Fang Wanqing asked puzzled.
"Isn't it Teacher Qiu?"
Su Yi replied with a smile,
"Many of my investment skills in the stock market were learned from Teacher Qiu's past trading experience."
"But Uncle Qiu basically doesn't trade stocks much anymore,"
Fang Wanqing said.
Even though the relationship between the Qiu family and the Fang family was quite close, she wouldn't openly ask Qiu Guoyu about things like investing in stocks.
Of course, what she just said about wanting Su Yi to teach her how to trade stocks.
In fact, it was just a joke.
She was not optimistic about the domestic financial market and its financial system, and she deeply knew that the domestic financial market was more like a casino than an investment market.
Therefore, she was not interested in A-share investments and did not want to participate.
"Although Teacher Qiu has retired from the jianghu, the jianghu is still full of his legends,"
Su Yi said,
"If Miss Fang wants to learn stock trading skills, having Teacher Qiu teach you is far more suitable than me teaching you."
"It seems Mr. Su has very deep and unique insights into financial investment."
Liu Zishan heard their conversation and praised with a smile.
She knew that as her best friend, Fang Wanqing's vision was extremely high.
Within the field of 'financial investment'.
She had never seen Fang Wanqing admire anyone.
So, seeing Fang Wanqing being so polite to Su Yi at this moment, and seemingly admiring Su Yi greatly in her words.
This made her unable to help but wonder about Su Yi's specific identity and background, and at the same time, she also couldn't help but start to wonder how far their relationship had progressed.
"Just barely able to earn a little money from the financial market, enough to make a living in this industry,"
Su Yi replied with a smile,
"Can't really call them unique insights; after all, the financial market has high uncertainty, and no one can accurately predict the future. To put it bluntly... everyone in their analysis is just fortune-telling."
"You can't say that, can you?"
Fang Wanqing replied,
"The trend and pattern of the macroeconomy are sometimes quite clear, and economic development is bound to follow some economic laws."
Su Yi nodded slightly and said,
"The trend and pattern of the macroeconomy can naturally sometimes be traced, and its pattern and trend can be clearly analyzed. But the financial trading market does not necessarily synchronize with the macroeconomy's trend. Using the macroeconomy's trend to judge the financial trading market's trend sometimes often leads to going in opposite directions."
"So... this stock market thing, I will never touch,"
Liu Zishan said.
Like Fang Wanqing and Su Yi, she was also a top student who graduated with a 'finance' major, but after graduation, she chose to start a business with her boyfriend and did not enter a company related to her original major.
"Alright, let's get back to the project investment matter."
Fang Wanqing saw Zhou Lingfei on the side wanting to interject, but looking awkward not knowing how to join the conversation, and immediately changed the topic,
"Lingfei, what do you think about the future mobile game industry and related market development?"
Zhou Lingfei coughed lightly and said,
"Just as Mr. Su said earlier, with the further surge in the number of mobile devices and the arrival of the subsequent 5G and 6G eras, the mobile game market will definitely still have long-term explosive growth, but only after overcoming the initial period of wild growth.
The industry's standardization, under regulatory rules, will definitely become stricter and stricter. Moreover, I feel that in the future game market, the Matthew effect will become increasingly strong."
"If the Matthew effect becomes increasingly strong..."
Fang Wanqing paused and said,
"Then the market share of leading companies in the industry will continue to rise, and the survival space for small and medium-sized game companies will shrink. For your company, this should be a considerable challenge, right?"
"You can't say that,"
Zhou Lingfei replied,
"In terms of R&D investment, promotion, user acquisition... and all other aspects, major game companies in the industry definitely have an overwhelming advantage over small and medium-sized game companies. But actually, the game industry, after segmentation, is a very large market.
Various gameplay styles and various development focuses will create different game modes. Although major game companies in the industry have various advantages, their focus and R&D priorities will not spread to every niche segment. This gives small game companies like ours the space and soil to survive."
"What Mr. Zhou wants to say... should be differentiated competition in segmented markets, right?"
Su Yi generally understood what Zhou Lingfei meant and added with a smile,
"Some niche segments have a limited volume of game users, but player stickiness is stronger. Limited by the volume of game users, major game companies in the industry generally won't invest too much effort to develop games for these types of players, so this market becomes relatively vacant, becoming the survival space for numerous small and medium-sized game developers."
Zhou Lingfei looked at Su Yi with great surprise and said,
"Mr. Su seems to understand our industry very well. Yes... that's exactly what I mean. In fact, no matter what the industry's competitive environment is like. There will always be niche segments with weaker competitiveness where there is room for survival.
This is also the fundamental reason why our company, at the beginning of game development, after thorough market research and consideration, turned its attention to the female gamer market. I believe that under the model of differentiated competition.
Even if the Matthew effect in the industry becomes increasingly severe later on, and the market competitive landscape becomes increasingly brutal. Our company will also be able to survive."
Hearing Zhou Lingfei's words, a deep smile appeared on Su Yi's face.
The primary investment condition for so-called angel investment and venture capital is to invest in people, and undoubtedly... in his opinion, Zhou Lingfei is a qualified entrepreneur.
Facts have proven...
Ultimately, Zhou Lingfei's business philosophy allowed 'Diezhi Network Technology', a startup company that was still largely small-scale at the time, to successfully break through in the subsequent brutal mobile game market, and also allowed the game products operated by the company to achieve great success.
"The limitation in the number of players in specific fields has instead become a moat for small companies?"
Fang Wanqing pondered this sentence, and in her heart, she seemed to have a new understanding and perception of investment.
Su Yi nodded and said,
"This is like the recent widespread rumor on the internet that our country cannot produce the special steel used for 'ballpoint pen tips.' In reality, it's not that we can't produce it. But rather, the entire market size for 'ballpoint pen tips' is too small, and it's not worth it for large domestic special steel companies to open new production lines to produce this item.
After all, setting up a separate production line. Then, not only will the original production scale be affected. Because of the equipment installation costs, employee salary costs, market sales and operating costs... and other operating costs generated by this production line.
It will also compress the company's original profit margins. And because the entire market size is too small, even if the market share rises to a very high level. It would still be difficult to cover production costs.
This leads to large special steel manufacturers being unwilling to produce this item and not investing effort into researching and developing it. In the gaming industry, and even many other industries, there are many such examples where, due to the market size being too small, it has instead become a moat for small companies."
"I understand,"
Fang Wanqing said with a bright light sparkling in her eyes, nodding with a smile.
In her eyes, unknowingly, Su Yi's image seemed to have become much taller.
While the few people were talking, the waiter had already served all sorts of dishes...
Since the two ladies didn't drink, Zhou Lingfei took the initiative to pour a glass of wine and voluntarily toasted Su Yi, expressing gratitude to Su Yi as an investor and stating that the future development of the company would absolutely not disappoint the expectations of Su Yi and Fang Wanqing, the two investors who trusted them.
Su Yi's impression of Zhou Lingfei, this young man, was still quite good.
So, he unceremoniously started drinking with him and further discussed with him issues such as the future development of the gaming industry and gameplay innovation.
The more the two conversed.
The more Zhou Lingfei felt that Su Yi's insights into the gaming industry were very unique and profound.
He even had the illusion at one point that Su Yi was once an industry professional in the gaming sector.
After the four finished eating together, it was already 2 PM.
After having a very pleasant conversation and initially settling on an investment intention, the few people then went their separate ways.
Su Yi walked out of the restaurant and returned home escorted by Fang Wanqing driving.
He felt a little dizzy, so he took a nap.
When he woke up again, it was already evening.
Aunt Liu had finished making dinner, his mother, accompanied by his cousin driving, had also returned from a hospital check-up, Chu Wan was quietly sitting on the living room sofa, wearing headphones, listening to music, practicing the new pieces taught by her music teacher, and on the balcony, 'Yuanbao' was still lazily basking in the autumn sun...
"Xiao Yi Ge, our school has an evening party program tomorrow night, will you go?"
During dinner, Chu Wan asked softly.
"Sure,"
Su Yi replied with a smile,
"I happen to have no plans tomorrow."
He had recently been busy with company establishment matters and also going to the brokerage firm for trading, indeed hadn't spent much time with Chu Wan, so facing Chu Wan's request, he agreed without even thinking.
"But your school, how did it suddenly occur to you to hold an evening party at this time?"
Su Yi paused, somewhat puzzled,
"Tomorrow doesn't seem to be any important holiday, does it?"
(End of chapter)