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Chapter 117 Huh?
No wonder Cai Quan was so excited.

The main reason is that he couldn't hold on any longer...

His AnimationFan video website now has more than 200,000 users, which is not a small number overall.

But the management team behind the website is still a makeshift team...even more makeshift than Tang Yao's Utopia. The initial team consists of only ten people, squeezed into a residential house. The monthly operating costs alone are as high as hundreds of thousands, but the income comes only from advertising, and the money brought in by advertising cannot cover the operating costs at all.

I’m losing money every month…bloody money.

And recently the number of users has increased significantly.

He has no money to buy a server!
Although we can say that the future is promising.

But he's starving to death now! What's the future?
He originally created this site out of interest, mainly because he himself is a veteran of the anime world. Do you think he had the idea of ​​starting a business and reaching the pinnacle of his life? Of course he did.

But the initial ambition was soon shattered by reality.

How to say it, there are quite a few core 2D users on the website.

But it has always been a problem for video websites not to know how to monetize.

I'm losing money every day!
Although Cai Quan has a lot of wealth, it is not a good idea to continue losing money like this!

It's not that he hasn't tried to save himself and looked for investors. He did... but the problem is that these investors would shake their heads after a quick investigation into the current status of the website. He finally managed to find one who was willing to give him money, but after paying attention to it for a few months, the other party simply gave up.

At the very last moment, he even cursed Cai Quan.

What a rubbish website! It seems to have a lot of users, but the advertising conversion efficiency is extremely low! The sales conversion rate is even more ridiculously low. Large advertisers don't care about it at all, and small advertisers will run away immediately after being deceived once.

The advertisers we find now are all over 18 types! Not only do they pay little, but it's also embarrassing!

not to mention.

This website relies entirely on individual video hosts who are passionate about it. Who knows how long these people can hold on? What if these users leave on a large scale and the website itself has no content of its own? What will happen then?
This doesn't look like something that could be turned into a company!!
Anyway, the angel investor just ran away after cursing, without caring at all... just consider it a loss of money.

Then Cai Quan was left alone to hold on.

He later tried to find someone, but when everyone heard that it was a video website, or a video website focusing on a certain group, they all shook their heads and were not optimistic.

no way.

Let's not even talk about the ANF here... Tang Yao's previous life's Bilibili, the renowned iQiyi and Tencent Video, are all facing profitability pressures. Wasn't there a report that the three leading long-form video platforms, iQiyi, Youku, and Tencent Video, have burned through 1000 billion yuan and still haven't seen their profit targets.

They even tried to combine membership fees and advertising, two completely unrelated and even mutually exclusive business models, and still can't see any profit prospects, let alone other video websites.

The situation here is similar.

Therefore, no one was willing to invest money in the ANF, which was still in its infancy.

With the help of the first money given by a certain unscrupulous investor, Cai Quan finally transformed ANF from a personal website into a company, but found that this first step was the last step and the website could no longer operate.

no way.

At the beginning, Bishi of Bilibili had an uncle and an aunt. He could also use the method of lending out shares to allow his uncle, a professional, to join the management team and provide more decision-making for the company's development.

But Cai Quan is alone here. It is really too difficult for a otaku to develop and operate a niche community in a commercial direction, and to use the capital game of transformation, breaking the circle, telling stories, and finally listing it on the market.

And no one wanted the shares even if he gave them away for free... He got stuck at the first step, and the situation was getting worse and worse.

He did back down.

This is also the reason why he was so excited when he saw the email sent by Yuan Yanbo.

He couldn't hold on any longer.

Forget about the investment! I'll sell you the entire website!

"……What’s wrong with you?"

The ANF operations team is located here.

Cai Quan's face flushed red, and he typed on the keyboard excitedly, replying to Yuan Yanbo.

This scene happened to be seen by Wen Fei who pushed the door open and felt a little curious.

Although he lives in a small residential building, Cai Quan, as the biggest spender, still has an "independent office".

Upon hearing this, Cai Quan looked up at his co-founder and cousin standing at the door and said excitedly, "Someone wants to acquire us!"

Although there is no clue about it.

But he directly expressed his vision.

"Ok?"

Wen Fei, who was standing at the doorway, was stunned when he heard this. Then his eyes suddenly lit up. He immediately dropped the documents in his hand and walked over with his long legs. "Who? Who wants it? Are you crazy? Who wants this crappy website of yours? How much do you want?"

"?" Although I knew she was telling the truth.

But Cai Quan was still very unhappy.

But no matter how unhappy he was, he had no way to refute it.

At this moment, Wen Fei walked to his computer and saw the address suffix of Cai Quan's reply email.

Wen Fei softly read the email extension, feeling as if she had heard it before. She frowned and asked, "Avalon? Why does this name sound so familiar?"

"...the production company behind the recent Fate/Grand Order!"

Cai Quan, a veteran of the anime world, clearly knew what the name represented: "It's the game we all played and praised! The one that made nearly 100 million in revenue on its first day!"

"what!?"

When Wen Fei heard this, she remembered the recent all-time favorite 2D game and suddenly raised her voice: "Aren't they making games? Why would they need our crappy website?!"

Cai Quan: “…”

Could you please stop calling it a piece of crap?

Although it really sucks...

Wen Fei's voice was successfully heard by the staff outside.

moment.

The entire ANF operations team was in an uproar, and they all asked Cai Quan... When will it be sold?

……

at the same time.

Avalon Studios.

Yuan Yanbo looked at the email on the screen with a strange expression, but ultimately did not reply. Instead, he stood up and found Tang Yao, saying strangely, "Ms. Tang Yao..."

"Ok?"

Tang Yao was writing a plan for a card game. Upon hearing this, she looked up at Yuan Yanbo, a little curious: "What's wrong?"

"ANF responded to me."

"So fast? How is it? Do they agree to our capital injection?"

"No, I disagree."

"Ah? Why? Do they dislike our small size?"

"No."

Yuan Yanbo was at a loss for words and said, "They said they only accept acquisitions, not capital injections!"

"……what?"

Tang Yao slowly put up a question mark.

What the hell?
Could this be a fake website?

After all, they are quite large in scale, and Tang Yao has heard of ANF.

How could they not even be willing to invest and hold a certain amount of shares, but choose to sell directly?

Seeing Tang Yao's adorable, somewhat bewildered expression, Yuan Yanbo understood what she was thinking and began to explain, "I just made some inquiries after sending the email, and discovered that aside from the initial angel investment, they haven't raised a single cent since then... This means their website is losing money every day, and the capital market is completely pessimistic about its prospects. I guess the founders have lost hope, and that's why they're thinking of selling it."

Tang Yao was a little surprised: "...So miserable?"

"Yes, you see..."

Yuan Yanbo hesitated to speak, although after listening to Tang Yao's story, he felt that having such a website mainly for core two-dimensional users as a promotional platform was indeed promising.

But the website is in such a bad state now, the operations team is even rushing to sell it... She doesn't know if Tang Yao will back out.

"Let them come over to our place and negotiate."

Tang Yao knew what he meant and said directly, "Of course, don't act too anxious... But there is one thing I can tell you. As long as they are willing to sell, we will buy it!"

A community with core 2D users! If it's well managed, it will definitely become the main platform for the dissemination of 2D games!

I don't know if the ANF operations team is aware of this. According to their current feedback, they don't seem to have realized that... The "G" in ACG, that is, the gaming business, can fully utilize the characteristics of the two-dimensional video website and open up a unique development path that focuses on "two-dimensional culture."

(End of this chapter)