When Takayuki initially established the company Gamestar Electronic Entertainment, handled various procedures, and applied for high-value loans, Fujii helped out with some minor favors. Without Fujii's endorsement, banks during the era of the bursting bubble wouldn't dare to casually issue massive loans to a startup company.
But with Fujii's status, helping someone establish a company and apply for high-value loans was a breeze.
And Takayuki's father had always been a good friend of Fujii. When the friend's child requested something, he hardly ever refused, considering the money he gave as pocket money for the child, never expecting to get it back.
It was just a child, wanting to start a business, which was a good thing, but in the current era of the bursting bubble, entrepreneurship was indeed a bit reckless.
However, he didn't care. If he lost money, so be it. He wouldn't say another word.
Consider it a tuition fee for a friend's child to grow a little.
It's just that he never expected Takayuki to actually carve out a market for himself.
Moreover, it was a completely new market, and within less than a year, it already had a very healthy cash flow.
According to the partial data displayed on the official website, he estimated that his investment in Takayuki last year was the highest return project he had had in recent years.
Fujii rummaged through one of his office drawers and finally found the contract belonging to Takayuki among numerous contracts.
It was the share contract signed with Takayuki.
"Five percent pure original shares, without any voting rights... It's a bit of a pity, but it's also convenient. I can just focus on waiting for dividends every year without worrying about managing company affairs."
As long as Gamestar Electronic Entertainment continued to develop healthily, he might really make a lot of money in the future.
Perhaps he needed to work harder to protect this seedling.
No, he needed to discuss with other directors and try to persuade them to pay more attention to the field of electronic games, not letting those little guys from the television stations crush such a company with unlimited potential.
If it collapsed, he would lose a lot of money.
Fujii immediately got up and left his office.
Takayuki had already negotiated the interview with the managers of Tokyo Television and arranged for the interview to take place on Friday at noon, along with a bonus radio interview, with the time slot of their choice, all for a total price of just ten million yen.
This surprised Takayuki.
If Tokyo Television accepted this interview program, it meant that they would directly confront several other television stations. Tokyo Television's position was weaker than the others, so the results of such a direct confrontation might not be good.
By agreeing to the interview program, they would probably demand a high price.
In fact, the top of Tokyo Television is Japan Economic News.
Fujii is also a powerful director of Japan Economic News, with enough influence to influence the television station underneath.
Even if people there were dissatisfied, they wouldn't dare to show it.
The real influential directors of the newspaper were not something they could afford to offend, and it was completely unworthy to do so for just one interview program.
Moreover, Tokyo Television's position was already like this. In the past, it had been suppressed by other television stations, and it wouldn't matter much this time either.
With the command from the top, they also understood that Gamestar Electronic Entertainment was probably related to the newspaper, so they couldn't ask for too much money, so they just asked for a friendly price of ten million yen to show sincerity.
Takayuki didn't know these things. When Takayuki mentioned it to him, he thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure out the reason.
Japan Economic News was probably the only newspaper planning to intervene in this matter. Other newspapers either because of arrogance or other reasons didn't want to get involved.
The public relations team of Gamestar Electronic Entertainment was preparing for the interview.
They were best at standing in the limelight and using all means to defend the interests of their company.
At the appointed time on Friday, the people from Gamestar Electronic Entertainment had already arrived at the television station, and Takayuki had also come.
He had never been to the television station before, so he wanted to visit and then see how his people performed and whether he could remedy any unexpected situations.
As Takayuki waited for the interview to begin, a man in a suit walked over.
"President Takayuki, nice to meet you!"
This man was a deputy director of the television station, with whom Takayuki had previously negotiated through his subordinates.
Originally, such matters wouldn't attract the attention of someone like the deputy director, just a minor adjustment of time.
But now it was different. The matter of Gamestar Electronic Entertainment was already related to the high-level management of the newspaper, so this deputy director immediately changed his attitude and personally led this interview program, hoping to improve relations with the high-level management of the newspaper.
"Hello, Director Kubo, I'm also very happy to meet you. I didn't expect such a small matter to attract the attention of the director of the television station."
Director Kubo waved his hand, "This can't be considered a small matter. This is a life and death crisis for an industry. The current topic heat is not low. This can also increase the attractiveness of our television station."
Other television stations want to suppress electronic games as much as possible, trying to use this to revive the television industry, at least to spit out the five percent audience share taken away by electronic games.
Tokyo Television chose to ride the wave, hoping to use this trend to promote electronic games, perhaps also indirectly increasing viewership.
However, it was just a try. The main reason was still the command from the top of the newspaper.
Director Kubo sighed, "Times have indeed changed. Television stations are gradually declining, while your electronic games are a rising star, completely unstoppable."
Takayuki was intrigued, "Director Kubo seems different from the directors of other television stations?"
Kubo chuckled disdainfully, "Those directors are all stubborn people, just thinking about guarding their own little audience share, completely ignoring the trend of the times. Look at the Internet now, there are already thirty million netizens, and it will continue to expand. I think the future belongs to the Internet, and your electronic games also have the potential."
"The Internet? It seems Director Kubo has a good eye."
Kubo wasn't young, but his thinking was very insightful.
Perhaps it was because their position as the youngest station had led them to give up competing head-on with other television stations.
They planned to fight in other ways.
This was their own decision, and Takayuki didn't care much about it.
"By the way, President Takayuki, does your company have any plans for financing recently?" Kubo asked, seemingly casually.
"Financing?" Takayuki was taken aback, then shook his head, "We don't have such plans for the time being. Our cash flow is very healthy."
More than healthy.
It was explosively healthy.
Right now, just the reserve funds on hand were close to a billion yen.
If Takayuki was someone who focused on making money, he would have probably planned to use this money to expand the company's scale, invest crazily in promising companies, and find ways to make money with money.
But he felt it was enough, and healthy cash flow was actually quite important. With money in hand, there was no panic in the heart. In his past life, he had just experienced a global pandemic, and the people of Huaxia were generally more prone to seek refuge due to their savings habits, which helped them get through the most intense period of the epidemic and eventually rise unexpectedly on a global scale.
Moreover, Nintendo in his past life was also a money-hoarding maniac with terrifying cash flow, which allowed them to withstand the initial crises through one clever move after another; otherwise, they would have gone bankrupt long ago.