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Chapter 119 Finalized
When Cai Quan and Wen Fei heard Tang Yao's words, ecstasy immediately appeared on their faces. They said almost at the same time: "Okay! Let's contact them immediately!"

"It's troublesome."

Tang Yao smiled, then thought of something and asked, "By the way, after you sell the website...are you willing to continue managing it?"

"..."

what?
Hear this.

Cai Quan and Wen Fei were stunned.

What do you mean?
After selling this website, will they continue to hire us to work? Didn’t this beautiful girl hear what we just said?

We are not professional! We don’t know where the website should go!

"You don't have to worry about the decision-making. We at Avalon Studio will make the decisions. You just need to execute and manage them."

Tang Yao explained, "After all, you're more familiar with the website, and I don't want the website's value to be damaged by management changes. Let's make the retention of your founding team one of the conditions of the deal."

This is the result of her careful consideration.

Avalon Studio already doesn't have enough staff, and now they have to find a way to recruit people for ANF, and they have to recruit people who have experience in website management and are deeply in love with the two-dimensional world... To be honest, it's quite difficult. At present, the entire Avalon Studio is still in the stage of working hard, and many things have not been built yet. Almost everything needs to be done by Tang Yao herself.

Tang Yao plans to wait until the Christmas version is released and FGO is completely on the right track before considering hiring a manager with rich experience in corporate management and human resources management to completely develop Avalon Studio from a makeshift team into a mature enterprise.

By then she will probably be able to relax and collect money.

……perhaps.

However, it is not that stage yet, and Tang Yao cannot give up the work at hand, let alone take care of ANF. Therefore, it is the best option to let their entrepreneurial team stay, and she can be responsible for investing funds and making decisions.

This can also better prevent the website from deteriorating... After all, they can't even figure out the monetization channels. They created the website out of passion. They are all old 2D fans. They obviously understand 2D and the experience, but they don't understand capital.

Tang Yao acquired ANF mainly because she was interested in the website's attributes as a secondary game promotion platform. As for other aspects, she did not want to change them, such as listing and capital operations.

The website's video business is simply used to attract 2D users, and the money-making is left to the games.

As long as ANF can fully utilize the advantages of the two-dimensional video platform, promote joint operation games, and increase user stickiness for the game.

If you are lucky and operate it properly, when all the promotion and marketing of two-dimensional games cannot avoid ANF, the game section will be able to feed back to the website and even support the website.

of course.

Tang Yao also knew that it would be difficult to keep Cai Quan and others by relying solely on salary and persuasion.

And the website has really improved since then.

They might even have some opinions. After all, many people don't look at the process, but only consider the results. If these two founders don't have some self-awareness, when they see the website getting better, they might forget their cautiousness today and just think that they shouldn't have sold the website in the first place.

Apart from Xun and Li Xue, Tang Yao doesn't trust anyone else, nor does she believe in human nature.

So she added a weight: "We can sign a bet agreement. I don't know if you are familiar with this, but most founding teams continue to work and sign a bet agreement after selling the company. This is a common transaction arrangement."

"..."

Cai Quan was completely confused.

Instead, Wen Fei asked cautiously, "Are you asking us to promise that the company will achieve certain financial or business goals within a certain period of time in the future, and then give us equity incentives? A performance bet?"

"Correct."

Tang Yao nodded.

Both of them looked embarrassed, obviously not very confident.

Because generally speaking, such commitments involve annual profit growth.

But do they have the ability? No, okay.

Otherwise, they wouldn't be in such a rush to sell the website. Tang Yao also knew what they were thinking and added, "Don't worry too much. Our bet agreement is a little different... You will stay for three years, but you don't have to promise an average annual increase in revenue and profits. I only have one requirement: user growth."

In this way, you don't have to face huge performance pressure. You only need to achieve this goal to get a certain amount of equity rewards. If you exceed the goal, you can also get additional compensation.

And if the bet target is not achieved, you don’t need to pay a huge compensation or repurchase shares, you just need to resign. "

"So what is the specific target?"

Hear this.

Cai Quan's eyes lit up. If you talk about income and profit, he doesn't have the courage to sign a bet agreement.

But if you're talking about user growth, that's a different story.

Not only does he have the courage, but he's also very brave.

What's more, the angel in front of him had no intention of making things difficult for him... If he didn't achieve his goal, he would just resign.

If there is such a hope, he would also like to hold some shares in his own website. After all, there is still some affection.

The reason why he was so anxious to sell the website was mainly because he saw no hope.

But after the sale, he was still working... If it was just a part-time job, why not continue working on the original website? After all, the pressure would not be on him anymore, and what if the website became profitable thanks to the support of Avalon Studios?

Although there is little hope.

But it doesn’t matter if I don’t make any money! I still get paid every month! I just need to focus on user growth!
"The specific target will need to wait until we have evaluated your website's situation. But don't worry, it will definitely not be outrageous. It will only fluctuate slightly upwards based on the normal range."

Tang Yao didn't give a definite answer immediately, but asked, "So do you agree?"

Cai Quan and Wen Fei looked at each other, then nodded solemnly: "As long as the promised conditions are reasonable, we are willing!"

"but……"

Wen Fei paused and whispered, "We really don't know where to start in terms of performance..."

"fine."

Tang Yao nodded calmly. "Just focus on user growth and make the website as good as possible to attract more users. We'll discuss the details after you secure the equity from the investors and we sign the acquisition agreement... You can go back and discuss it with the entire startup team first."

Oh, and one more thing...would you like to temporarily move in with us and work together?"

"Of course! We couldn't ask for more!"

Cai Quan had long since had enough of that crappy place! Who wouldn't want to work in a proper office?
"Then you should move here as soon as possible."

Tang Yao chuckled and said, "Also, tell your founding team over there that they don't have to worry about their salaries after the acquisition. Of course, if they don't want to come, that's fine too. I'll give them a certain amount of compensation after the acquisition is completed."

"it is good!!!"

Cai Quan and Wen Fei looked at Tang Yao and thought that this new boss was really great!

then.

The two happily left Avalon Studio and prepared to return to their old office to deal with the original investors and startup team.

Tang Yao stayed in the conference room, watching the two leave. Then, she looked at Yuan Yanbo and said, "Get ready. If nothing unexpected happens and this is a success... you should immediately start promoting the new version of FGO on the website. You'll be responsible for the specific plan, but there are two things I need to mention."

Yuan Yanbo: "You say."

"First, I need to migrate the comics section of our official website to the ANF website."

Tang Yao raised her white, tender fingers and began to talk about her plans: "This matter must be completed as soon as the acquisition is completed. I will then draw some short stories about FGO to build momentum. Secondly, I need all users of the ANF website to be able to know the news when the new version of FGO is launched. I plan to put a full-width advertisement on the homepage.

These can be prepared now.”

(End of this chapter)