Chapter 75 Attempt 5

"What a smart girl!" Ryan praised.

"But I think your plan is still not perfect. Besides the website, a lot of preliminary work has not been done. I think you should know this, right?"

Zhang Wei could only nod in acknowledgment.

"But the second-hand bookstore is indeed a good idea, and your part about charity is also very good. If I want to get involved, only ideas in this area are more valuable to me."

"So you mean you just want to use our ideas for your own?"

Zhang Wei thought that if he did this, they would have no way to stop him. After all, they had no patents that prohibited anyone from using their ideas.

Ryan quickly defended himself, "No, no, if I was planning to do it myself, why would I come to you? You have to trust Leida's integrity in making friends."

Zhang Wei complained in his heart that Leida didn't say he was a friend, but only a classmate.

"What do you mean?" Paris asked with a serious expression.

"It's too small. Your approach is at best like a small community website. The supply of used books is relatively limited. Although I haven't seen your website, I think its data capacity is definitely not enough for a profitable shopping website."

"So our only value is this idea, right?" Now even Namir understood.

"What do you think this idea is worth?" Zhang Wei asked the key question.

"With all due respect, it only counts as a 5% technical investment at most. Those old books you've already stockpiled can be counted, but I'm afraid it won't be much."

Looking at the children who all looked unhappy, Ryan didn't care and made a bold statement:

"I want to build the largest secondhand book trading website in Country A, and possibly the world. I've decided to use my own $500,000 as startup capital, so your investment is a drop in the bucket for me."

Zhang Wei finally realized that Ryan came here just to give face to Leida or Charles. For him, giving them 5% of the shares was a huge expense.

I believe that if Charles knew this, he would think that he was quite generous. Five percent is twenty-five thousand US dollars. Well, he earned back the big money that Grace paid.

However, everyone was quite unhappy.

Paris has been working so hard for so long, but his website has not yet been launched.

Namir has been very busy with training recently, and he has no interest in this, but he has no complaints when his help is needed.

Grace and Dora invested money and labor simply to support their friend's ideas.

Zhang Wei hoped to make a lot of money from this. It was only the beginning of 2000 and the timing was right. She felt that there was a great chance of success. If the website became bigger, it could be like Amazon, expanding from just selling books to selling other second-hand goods.

By the way, isn’t this the fish from before?

Zhang Wei suddenly felt that she had the confidence to negotiate with Ryan, but this could not be discussed privately, so she still had to find Charles.

Then Zhang Wei found Charles and told him his idea. As long as they attracted enough users, there would be no need to worry about the supply of goods. However, this would place relatively high demands on the website and require the support of huge data and algorithms.

Obviously, compared to selling old books, Charles is more interested in the huge second-hand market.

Charles obviously liked Zhang Wei's idea of only providing services and platforms and taking commissions from user transactions. In this way, the platform would bear less risk and only need to pay the cost of initial investment and maintenance.

Just like that, what was originally a discussion about the problems of their second-hand book website turned into a huge stall.

Then I don’t know what Charles and Ryan talked about, but in the end they started preparing for their second-hand website immediately, and asked Zhang Wei to sign a lot of documents, and they actually gave her some shares.

This made Zhang Wei a little happier. It wasn't all in vain. Moreover, their Time Used Bookstore could continue to operate, but it would be opened in Charles and Ryan's new website. They could move in once the website was officially launched.

However, Paris's website can only be changed into an ordinary information website and cannot be used for transactions.

Finally, we gathered everyone's ideas and turned it into a learning sharing website, divided into several sections, including mathematics, programming, book recommendations and reading notes, sports skills and other aspects. In this way, they can all participate in the construction of the website, and everyone is quite satisfied.

It can be said that this matter troubled them for most of the semester, but fortunately there were some gains.

It also made Zhang Wei realize that it was not easy to make money on her own, and that she had no business talent and was just relying on the help of others.

The last time she signed a document, she needed her guardian's signature, so she gave up her fantasy of making a lot of money immediately. She decided to study hard and improve her abilities.

If you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen your tools. She believes that by continuing to learn and broaden her horizons, she will definitely be able to find something she can do with ease in the future.

It seems like a fantasy that she wants to start her own website and company when she has only a vague understanding of business.

Maybe everyone's enthusiasm was exhausted by the previous work, and they didn't spend too much time on online second-hand book trading.

Although some books remained unsold in the end, at least they recovered their costs and even made a little profit.

Zhang Wei finally breathed a sigh of relief when she returned the principal to everyone. She placed the nearly two thousand US dollars she had earned in the middle of the table and wanted to ask everyone what they decided to do with it.

If we divide it up, each person will get a few hundred, and we had previously agreed that 5% would be donated, so it would be too little to give away.

"Then let's donate all this money. It's really not much." Dora's idea was similar to Zhang Wei's.

Paris asked, "Where do we donate to?"

“How’s the community relief center?” asked Namir.

Zhang Wei didn't think it was that great. She had seen many people going to the relief center to get food, and they were basically all idlers. She felt it was not worth it. After all, this was the money they had worked hard to earn and spent so much time on.

She suddenly remembered: "The school has a charity club, they should know where help is needed!"

In the end, everyone unanimously agreed that all the money would be used for charity activities, and the specific purpose would be decided after asking the school.

When I visited the charity and help community, I found that there are really many options: universities, elderly care communities, poor families, churches, various protection organizations, including animal protection, plant protection, water resources protection, ocean protection, atmospheric protection, etc.

In any case, there are far more protection organizations for other species and the environment than those focusing on human survival.

Zhang Wei’s feeling after watching it was, why does it seem that other things are more important than human survival, or do most people here not need help?